Hip Fracture Prevention
Children's physical activity and bone health:
There is great potential to prevent the long-term sequelae of physical inactivity by encouraging children to be active throughout the growing years and beyond. Thus, effective KT and KE between researchers, government partners, health authorities and stakeholders in the school community (principals, teachers, parents and the students themselves) will serve to reverse the trend toward physical inactivity in childhood and substantially improve the health of Canadian children. Healthy Bones and Action Schools! BC are models that typify effective KT and KE that promote children's health.Please click on the links below to find out more details about this research.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the dissemination of Action Schools! BC: A socio-ecological intervention to increase physical activity and healthy eating in school children.
Do bone accrual benefits gained during a childhood exercise program persist when the exercise stimulus is withdrawn?
Falls prevention in the elderly:
About 30% of community-dwellers over the age of 65 experience one or more falls per year. Falls are the most frequent cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality among older people, resulting in over 2.4 billion dollars annually in direct medical expenditure nationally.
Falls are associated with cognitive dysfunction. Approximately 60% of older adults with cognitive impairment, with or without dementia, fall annually; this incidence is approximately twice that of cognitively normal peers. The cognitively impaired older faller is also at increased risk of major injury such as fracture. Thus, interventions that either prevent the onset of cognitive impairment or prevent further cognitive decline in the aging population are likely to reduce falls and fall-related fractures and falls related injuries and their associated costs would be reduced.
Recent evidence suggests physical activity, specifically cardiovascular fitness training (CVT), has benefits for cognition in older adults. However, few studies to date have examined the effect of other types of exercises, such as resistance training on cognitive function in older adults. CHHM is a pioneer in such studies. Please click on the links below to find out more details about this research.
Please click on the links below to find out more details about this research.
The effect of resistance training on cognitive function, cortical plasticity and falls risk in older women aged 65 to 75 years:
A one-year randomized controlled trial.
Is a recent history of multiple falls an early undication of cognitive dysfunction?
An observational study of older fallers and non-fallers.
Action Seniors!: A 12-month randomized controlled trial of a home based strength and balance retraining program in reducing falls.
