Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study

BACKGROUND: exercise can reduce osteoporotic fracture risk by strengthening bone or reducing fall risk. Falls prevention exercise programmes can reduce fall incidence, and also include strengthening exercises suggested to load bone, but there is little information as to whether these programmes infl...

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Main Authors: Rachel Duckham, Tahir Masud, Rachael Taylor, Denise Kendrick, Hannah Carpenter, Steve Iliffe, Richard Morris, Heather Gage, Dawn A. Skelton, Susie Dinan-Young, Katherine Brooke-Wavell
Format: Default Article
Published: 2015
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Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
Osteoporosis
Prevention
Exercise
Bone mineral density
X-ray absorptiometry
Men
Women
Aged
Primary care
Older people
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/17998
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