30% of people over the age of 65 years fall 1 or more times in a year. Falls are the leading cause of death from injury in elderly adults. In 2003, 13,700 people died from falls. A fall is defined as an event that results in a person coming to rest unintentionally on the ground […]
Falls in Senior Population: Can We Prevent Them?
March 24, 2015 by admin
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9 Things You Should Know About Pain
December 16, 2014 by admin
Most individuals experience and deal with physical pain differently. It helps to better understand the reason why we feel pain to know what it means or could be signaling. This article helps explain the reasons behind feeling pain written by Joseph Brence and published on MoveForwardPT.com. MoveFowardPT.com is an editorial board compromised of physical therapists members from the […]
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