Trial reportBMC geriatrics2016
Lower-extremity resistance training on unstable surfaces improves proxies of muscle strength, power and balance in healthy older adults: a randomised control trial.
Trial report in BMC geriatrics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effects of Simultaneous Balance and Resistance Training on Strength, Power and Balance in Older Adults: A Stratified and Randomised Trial
Effects of Different Resistance Training Methods on Strength, Motor Control and Executive Functions in Older Adults
Early Telerehabilitation After Hospital Discharge From Acute Care in Geriatric Patients. A Randomized Study With Four, Eight Weeks and Six Months Follow-up
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of elastic band resistance training on lower limb strength and balance function in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of Physical Activity Interventions on Strength, Balance and Falls in Middle-Aged Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of exercise interventions on fall prevention in ambulatory community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review with narrative synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Exercise Selection and Common Injuries in Fitness Centers: A Systematic Integrative Review and Practical Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness: a narrative systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
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- Efficacy of sensory-based static balance training on the balance ability, aging attitude, and perceived stress of older adults in the community: a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2024Trial
- Can Muscle Mass Be Maintained with A Simple Resistance Intervention in the Older People? A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Thailand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Instability Resistance Training improves Working Memory, Processing Speed and Response Inhibition in Healthy Older Adults: A Double-Blinded Randomised Controlled Trial.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Effect of Community-Based Group Exercise Interventions on Standing Balance and Strength in Independent Living Older Adults.Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001)Trial
- Hearing loss and postural balance performance in adults and the elderly in ELSA-Brazil.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- Balance, Gait Kinematics, and Fear of Falling After a Four-Month Targeted Training Program in a Patient with Cervical Dystonia: A Case Report.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Examining the Relationship Between Balance and Functional Status in the Geriatric Population.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of Soft Surface Stepping Exercise on Physical Activity Among Community-Dwelling Elderly: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2025Article
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- Resistance Exercise Program in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: CERT-Based Exercise Protocol of the AGUEDA Randomized Controlled Trial.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Article
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- Does 8-Week Resistance Training with Slow Movement Cadenced by Pilates Breathing Affect Muscle Strength and Balance of Older Adults? An Age-Matched Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Acute Effects of Whole-Body Electromyostimulation on Energy Expenditure at Resting and during Uphill Walking in Healthy Young Men.Metabolites · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is well documented that both balance and resistance training have the potential to mitigate intrinsic fall risk factors in older adults. However, knowledge about the effects of simultaneously executed balance and resistance training (i.e., resistance training conducted on unstable surfaces [URT]) on lower-extremity muscle strength, power and balance in older adults is insufficient. The objective of the present study was to compare the effects of machine-based stable resistance training (M-SRT) and two types of URT, i.e., machine-based (M-URT) and free-weight URT (F-URT), on measures of lower-extremity muscle strength, power and balance in older adults.
methodsSeventy-five healthy community-dwelling older adults aged 65-80 years, were assigned to three intervention groups: M-SRT, M-URT and F-URT. Over a period of ten weeks, all participants exercised two times per week with each session lasting ~60 min. Tests included assessment of leg muscle strength (e.g., maximal isometric leg extension strength), power (e.g., chair rise test) and balance (e.g., functional reach test), carried out before and after the training period. Furthermore, maximal training load of the squat-movement was assessed during the last training week.
resultsMaximal training load of the squat-movement was significantly lower in F-URT in comparison to M-SRT and M-URT. However, lower-extremity resistance training conducted on even and uneven surfaces meaningfully improved proxies of strength, power and balance in all groups. M-URT produced the greatest improvements in leg extension strength and F-URT in the chair rise test and functional reach test.
conclusionAside from two interaction effects, overall improvements in measures of lower-extremity muscle strength, power and balance were similar across training groups. Importantly, F-URT produced similar results with considerably lower training load as compared to M-SRT and M-URT. Concluding, F-URT seems an effective and safe alternative training program to mitigate intrinsic fall risk factors in older adults.
trial registrationThis trial has been registered with clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT02555033 ) on 09/18/2015.
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