Exercise-Based Fall Prevention

In Brief Trip-specific perturbation training reduces trip-related falls after laboratory-induced trips and, prospectively, in the community. Based on an emerging body of evidence, we hypothesize that using task-specific perturbation training as a stand-alone approach or in conjunction with conventional exercise-based approaches will improve the effectiveness of fall prevention interventions significantly. Task-specific perturbation training may be an ideal alternative or addition to conventional exercise-based approaches to fall prevention.