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@article{ART002288902},
author={Wong YH Candace and Cheung KW Kennis and Ko YC Evelyn and Tse HC Jeffrey and Law YL Margaret and Ngai PC Shirley and Seong-soo Hwang},
title={Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine},
issn={1975-311X},
year={2017},
volume={12},
number={4},
pages={73-82}

TY - JOUR
AU - Wong YH Candace
AU - Cheung KW Kennis
AU - Ko YC Evelyn
AU - Tse HC Jeffrey
AU - Law YL Margaret
AU - Ngai PC Shirley
AU - Seong-soo Hwang
TI - Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly
JO - Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
PY - 2017
VL - 12
IS - 4
PB - The Korean Society of Physical Medicine
SP - 73
EP - 82
SN - 1975-311X
AB - PURPOSE: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) has been shown to improve body function and activity/participation in people with functional dysfunctions. This study evaluates if active exercise using theraband in PNF pattern may induce similar benefits as exercise using manual PNF pattern performed by physiotherapists on promoting mobility, balance and fear of fall in community-dwelling elderly. METHODS: Twenty-three community-dwelling elderly with independent activities of daily living were recruited and randomly allocated into either PNF group - exercise in PNF pattern by trained physiotherapists or Theraband-PNF (T-PNF) group - exercise using theraband in PNF pattern, for an hour, twice weekly for 4 weeks. Functional outcomes such as Timed Up and Go test, Elderly Mobility Scale, Berg balance scale, functional reach and subjective measures including fear of fall (FOF) scale, bodily pain in visual analogue scale were measured pre and post-program. RESULTS: Twenty-one participants completed the program. PNF group demonstrated significant within-group improvements in all subjective measures and objective measures. Similar within-group improvements were demonstrated in all outcome measures except FOFS in T-PNF group. However, no between-group differences were found in any of the outcome measures. CONCLUSION: Comparable improvements in functional outcomes in community dwelling elderly were demonstrated in both groups. As manual PNF exercise traditionally need clinicians' contact and feedback on patient which limit the training to be carried out extensively in community setting. The current findings suggest that exercise using theraband in PNF pattern is feasible to be adopted as self-practice exercise for community-dwelling elderly to induce beneficial effects on functional outcomes.
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Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley and Seong-soo Hwang. (2017). Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly. Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine, 12(4), 73-82.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley and Seong-soo Hwang. 2017, "Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly", Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine, vol.12, no.4 pp.73-82.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley, Seong-soo Hwang "Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly" Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine 12.4 pp.73-82 (2017) : 73.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley, Seong-soo Hwang. Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly. 2017; 12(4), 73-82.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley and Seong-soo Hwang. "Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly" Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine 12, no.4 (2017) : 73-82.

Wong YH Candace; Cheung KW Kennis; Ko YC Evelyn; Tse HC Jeffrey; Law YL Margaret; Ngai PC Shirley; Seong-soo Hwang. Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly. Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine, 12(4), 73-82.

Wong YH Candace; Cheung KW Kennis; Ko YC Evelyn; Tse HC Jeffrey; Law YL Margaret; Ngai PC Shirley; Seong-soo Hwang. Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly. Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine. 2017; 12(4) 73-82.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley, Seong-soo Hwang. Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly. 2017; 12(4), 73-82.

Wong YH Candace, Cheung KW Kennis, Ko YC Evelyn, Tse HC Jeffrey, Law YL Margaret, Ngai PC Shirley and Seong-soo Hwang. "Effect of a 4-week Theraband Exercise with PNF Pattern on Improving Mobility, Balance and Fear of Fall in Community-Dwelling Elderly" Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine 12, no.4 (2017) : 73-82.