Seguimiento de un programa de revitalización para personas mayores desde el ámbito universitario

  1. Calvo Arenillas, José Ignacio
  2. Orejuela Rodríguez, Jesús
  3. Barbero Iglesias, Fausto J.
  4. Martín Nogueras, Ana María
  5. Sánchez Sánchez, Carmen
  6. Hernández Criado, T.
Revista:
Fisioterapia

ISSN: 0211-5638

Any de publicació: 1999

Títol de l'exemplar: Fisioterapia en Geriatría

Volum: 21

Número: 1

Pàgines: 44-52

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Fisioterapia

Resum

The physical activity being increasingly requested and practiced by the old persons. So that this activity will be actually healthy, instead of a source of risks, it is necessary a previous evaluation that determine the indication or contraindication of the exercise. Also it is necessary to design a program of physical activity adapted to the characteristics of this population and that it will be directed by qualified persons. Our sessions are led by the students of Physical Therapy of the University of Salamanca within their practical training. And finally also we belive necessary the study of a serial parameters to prove the effect that we are produceing in these old persons. In this job we expose how changed the physical aptitude, the corporal mass index, the lumbar bony mineral density and the number of falls and their consequences.