Kyphosis, an excessive forward curvature of the thoracic spine, is increasingly recognised as a significant factor affecting physical function in older adults. Characterised not only by postural ...

Hospitals are not places people want to visit over and over. But for many older adults, hospital readmission is a significant problem. One of the major reasons for readmission is loss of physical ...

Researchers from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (HRS) recently published a study that found a link between ...

Current models of mortality risk after heart failure (HF) rely primarily on cardiac-specific clinical variables and may underestimate risk in elderly East Asian patients. Researchers from Japan used ...

Juntendo University researchers have trained a machine learning algorithm to use clinical information and physical function metrics to accurately estimate long-term survival odds of elderly patients ...

Physical activity reduces chronic disease risks, improves function, and extends lifespan, thus supporting clinicians’ use of exercise prescriptions as a health intervention, new research suggests. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Physical function correlated with outcomes among patients who underwent CAR T-cell therapy. Those with worse ...

The study identified practical instruments for monitoring physical function in people with hemophilia by pinpointing 11 potential markers and establishing performance-based tests for 5 of these ...

Physical function tests, like grip strength and walking speed, could help predict which older adults are most likely to return to the hospital after discharge, according to new research published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patient-reported physical function predicts which patients gain greatest survival benefit from daratumumab.

Compared with usual care, a personalised, 3-month resistance exercise programme led to improvements in walking distance, anxiety, depression, health-related quality of life, and handgrip strength in ...