16
March
2017
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21:39
Asia/Singapore

Therapy reduces severity of falls: Study

The Steps to Avoid Falls in Elderly (Safe) study involving researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital, Changi General Hospital and the Agency for Integrated Care, found that physical therapy may not significantly reduce the number of falls for the elderly, but it helps in dampening the severity of falls. The study also found that physical therapy has a limited impact if the patient has two or more chronic ailments.