The costly, controversial therapy is getting its first federally funded test
By Katherine Ellison
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Gulf War veteran Lynn Gibbons has awful memories of combat with her fourth-grade son, Brent. "He was an out-of-control monster whenever you asked him to do something," the former Air Force computer operations officer recalls. Brent, who had received a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, was also flailing in his classes at Saratoga Elementary School in Springfield -- unable, says his mom, to write a coherent paragraph.
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Background and Aims: Programs designed to improve balance in older adults may function by improving general fitness (strength, endurance, range of motion) and also changing the attentional demands of postural control. Research in previously sedentary older adults cannot differentiate between changes in balance ability resulting from improved fitness or reduced attentional demands. A training program of games-based balance biofeedback was given to nine older adults with previous exercise experience.
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