PERTURBATION TRAINING FOR FALL-RISK REDUCTION AMONG OLDER ADULTS

摘要 这项研究的长期目标是一种预防性方法，可以减少福尔斯的发生率， 因此，老年人中的受伤风险，从而减少其不断上升的医疗费用。这个项目 探索通过使用跑步机设备和运动学习方法进行扰动训练，其中 使用由跑步机产生类似滑动的扰动的经验来准备电机系统， 在训练环境之外培养并运用抗摔技能（跨环境迁移）。 电脑控制跑步机轻便、安全、操作方便，便于临床使用， 社区中心。该研究逻辑上建立在团队以前和当前研究的基础上并对其进行了补充 计划，并将进一步测试，经过这样一个单一的会议，老年人在风险可以保留这种交叉- 在未来6至12个月的日常生活中，环境转移和减少福尔斯的可能性。最后， 这项研究将探讨，这种减少福尔斯不仅来自这些人对 培训或测试设置、协议和环境。

ABSTRACT The long-term objective of this research is a prophylactic approach that can reduce the incidence of falls and the resulting injuries among older adults at risk and thus reduce its escalating medical cost. This project explores perturbation training through the use of treadmill device and a motor learning approach, in which experience with slip-like perturbation generated by that treadmill is used to prepare the motor system to develop and then put to use fall-resisting skills outside of training environment (cross-environment transfer). The computer-controlled treadmill is portable, safe and easy to operate, thus conducive for use in clinics or community centers. The study logically builds on and complements the team's previous and current research programs, and will further test that after such a single session, older adults at risk can retain such cross- environment transfer and reduce their likelihood of falls in everyday living for the next 6 to 12 months. Finally, the study will explore that such reduction of falls does not come merely from these persons' familiarity with the training or testing setup, protocol and environments.