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Article: Age differences in movement patterns used to rise from a bed in subjects in the third through fifth decades of age.
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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For most individuals, getting out of bed is a routine daily activity that occurs across the life span and is essential for functional independence. A number of studies[1-4] have been directed toward describing the movement patterns used by healthy adults to perform routine daily activities such as rising from the floor, rolling from a supine to a prone position, and rising from a chair. Samacki[5] has described the movement patterns used when rising from a bed. These studies have described how movement patterns vary with respect to age but have generally focused on young adult subjects. Little information is available on how movement patterns vary with age across ...