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The Effect of Different Types of Foot Orthoses on the Biomechanical Variables, Lower Extremity Muscular Activity and Balance in Elderly: A Systematic Review Study
Arefeh Mokhtari Malekabadi, Mohsen Barghamadi, Amir Ali Jafarnezhadgero,
Volume 27, Issue 6 (10-2019)
Abstract

Older adults demonstrate increased amounts of postural sway, which may ultimately lead to falls. The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the effect of different foot orthoses on lower limb biomechanical variables, lower limb muscular activity, and balance in elderly people. Examining texts based on the search on the Magiran, Google Schoolar, Pubmed, Scopus, and SIVILICA sites were done by using following keywords: foot orthoses, footwear, aging, aged, elderly, Kinematic, walking, loading rate, Kinetic Walking, in combination in four part from 2005 to 2018. In the initial searches, 72 papers were obtained, eight articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected. This systematic review demonstrated that the use of textures and modeling orthoses strengthens sensory receptors and improves postures, as well as improves the biomechanical parameters such as evertor and invertor moments and ground reaction forces in some cases.
 


Therapeutic Routes for Movement Disorders in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Narrative Review Study
Amir Dodangeh, Mohammed Najafi Ashtiani,
Volume 31, Issue 2 (5-2023)
Abstract
Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive and chronic disorder that has one of the fastest worldwide growths among the neurological diseases. The main problem of the patients with PD is the loss of dopamine producing cells in their nervous system, which causes symptoms such as tremors, slowness of movements, walking disorder and postural instability. Parkinson's disease, by affecting the neuromuscular system as well as the proprioceptive feedback integration and processing, can lead to postural instability and falling of the patients. Treatments included pharmaceutical therapy, electrotherapy, and new methods of brain stimulation and exercise therapy. The pharmaceutical therapy is the most important part of treatment, but it comes with side effects for the patients. Electrotherapy and exercise therapy have been widely used to treat the patients' movement disorders. This narrative review study aimed to mention various routes of pharmaceutical therapy and electrotherapy methods, and then focused on exercise therapy to reduce movement disorders in the patients with PD.
Conclusion: Stretching and resistance exercises, performing yoga and tai chi movements, as well as using the virtual reality system caused reduced displacement of the center of pressure while standing, increased speed of walking, improved quality of life and reduced frequency of falls.
 

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