Reducing dizziness-related impairment in people aged 50+

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Reducing dizziness-related impairment in people aged 50+

A six-month tailored multifactorial intervention of dizziness therapies comprising balance and strength exercises, vestibular rehabilitation, cognitive-behavioural therapy and/or medical management effectively reduced dizziness-related impairment compared to control (usual care) in community-living people aged 50 years and older with dizziness.

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PLoS Medicine
Volume / Volumen: 15
Number / Número: 7
First and last pages / Páginas inicial-final: 1-21
Year / Año: 2018
Month / Mes: july

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Other articles written by the author Jasmine Charlotte Christiane Menant
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Caetano MJD, Lord SR, Allen NE, Brodie MA, Song J, Paul SS, et al. Stepping reaction time and gait adaptability are significantly impaired in people with Parkinson's disease: Implications for fall risk. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 47:32-38, 2018.
Menant JC, Close JCT, Delbaere K, Sturnieks DL, Trollor J, Sachdev PS, et al. Relationships between serum vitamin D levels, neuromuscular and neuropsychological function and falls in older men and women. Osteoporosis International 23(3):981-989, 2012.
Menant JC, Meinrath D, Migliaccio AA, Sturnieks DL, Hicks C, Lo J, et al. Identifying key risk factors for dizziness handicap in middle-aged and older people. J Am Med Dir Assoc 21(3):344-350, Mar 2020.
Menant JC, Schoene D, Sarofim M, Lord SR. Single and dual task tests of gait speed are equivalent in the prediction of falls in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ageing Research Reviews 16: 83-104, 2014.
Menant JC, St George RJ, Sandery B, Fitzpatrick RC, Lord SR. Older people contact more obstacles when wearing multifocal glasses while walking. J Am Geriatr Soc 57(10):1833-1838, 2009.
Menant JC, Steele JR, Menz HB, Munro BJ, Lord SR. Effects of walking surfaces and footwear on temporo-spatial gait parameters in young and older people. Gait & Posture 29(3):392-397, 2009.
Menant JC, Sturnieks DL, Brodie MAD, Smith ST, Lord SR. Visuospatial tasks affect locomotor control more than non-spatial tasks in older people. PLoS One 9(10):e109802, 2014.
Menant JC, Weber F, Lo J, Sturnieks DL, Close JC, Sachdev PS, et al. Strength measures are better than muscle mass measures in predicting health-related outcomes in older people: time to abandon the term sarcopenia? Osteoporosis International 28 (1):59-70, 2017.
Menant JC, Wong A, Close JCT, Trollor J, Lord SR. Depressive symptoms and orthostatic hypotension are risk factors for unexplained falls in community-living older people. J Am Geriatr Soc 64(5):1073-1078, 2016.
Menant JC, Wong A, Sturnieks DL, Close JCT, Delbaere K, Sachdev PS, et al. Pain and anxiety mediate the relationship between dizziness and falls in older people. J Am Geriatr Soc 61(3):423-428, 2013.

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Reducing the burden of dizziness in middle-aged and older people: A multifactorial, tailored, single-blind randomized controlled trial

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Americo Migliaccio¹, Daina Sturnieks², Kim Delbaere³, Nickolai Titov⁴, Jacqueline Close⁵, Daniela Meinrath⁶, Stephen Lord⁷

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