Effectiveness of rhythmic auditory stimulation enhanced gait training and frenkel exercises in improving mobility among geriatric population

Abstract

SUMMARY

One of the difficult faced by older patients are decreased walking speed and increased risk of falling.  Age-related changes in mobility demand interventions. rhythmic auditory stimulation enhanced gait training  may be a successful intervention technique ,on the other hand frenkel exercise shows improvement in  dynamic balance . In order to determine the  best between these two the study protocol has been designed.

AIM:To find any significant differences between  the effect of rhythmic auditory stimulation enhanced gait training and  Frenkel exercises in improving mobility among  the geriatric population.

METHOD: A total of 40 participants were selected using convinent sampling method based on inclusion and exclusion criteria then the subjects were divided into two groups.In Group A (n=20) patients received RAS enhanced gait training. In Group B (n=20) patients received  frenkel exercise , one session per day, six days per week, for a duration of 25 mins of 4 week. 

RESULT: The paired and unpaired t-test were used to statistically analyze. According to , the post-test mean value of the 10 m walk test and time up and go test yielded a p-value of less than 0.05 This demonstrates that RAS have a significant impact on mobility for geriatic population. 

CONCLUSION: From the data  analysis obtained in the study ,it concluded that rhythmic auditory stimulation group  have better improvement than the frenkel exercise group 

KEY WORDS: Walking,Exercise,Gait,Aging