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Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

health profession that aims to address the illnesses or injuries that limit a person's abilities to function in everyday lives

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Most cited

  1. The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons

    Diane Podsiadlo, Sandra Richardson · 1991 · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 14,530 citations

  2. A Short Physical Performance Battery Assessing Lower Extremity Function: Association With Self-Reported Disability and Prediction of Mortality and Nursing Home Admission

    Jack M. Guralnik, E. M. Simonsick, Luigi Ferrucci, Robert J. Glynn · 1994 · Journal of Gerontology · 9,897 citations

  3. Risk Factors for Falls among Elderly Persons Living in the Community

    Mary E. Tinetti, Mark Speechley, Sandra Ginter · 1988 · New England Journal of Medicine · 6,578 citations

  4. Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study.

    Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline Close, Henry Brodaty, Perminder S. Sachdev · 2010 · PubMed · 5,429 citations

  5. Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults

    Stephanie A. Studenski · 2011 · JAMA · 4,538 citations

  6. Lower-Extremity Function in Persons over the Age of 70 Years as a Predictor of Subsequent Disability

    Jack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Marcel E. Salive · 1995 · New England Journal of Medicine · 4,145 citations

Most recent

  1. Eye-Hand Coordination as a Fundamental Factor that Influences Basketball Shooting Skills

    Santi Sundari, Mansur, Muhammad Iqbal, Sukardi Putra · 2026 · International Journal of Social Science and Human Research · 0 citations

  2. Eye-Hand Coordination as a Fundamental Factor that Influences Basketball Shooting Skills

    Santi Sundari, Mansur, Muhammad Iqbal, Sukardi Putra · 2026 · International Journal of Social Science and Human Research · 0 citations

  3. Research Progress on Intervention Measures for Fall Prevention among the Elderly

    Sharon R Lewis, Lisa McGarrigle, Ewa Klimek Piskorz · 2026 · Journal of Public Health and Preventive Medicine · 0 citations

  4. From Static Stability to Dynamic Gait Governance: Differential Effects of Adapted Physical Activity and Tango-Based Therapy on Walking Distance and Plantar Load Redistribution in Parkinson’s Disease

    Raffaella R. R. Marzovillo, Gabriella D’Orsi, Paride Vasco, Giuseppe Cartagena · 2026 · Sports · 0 citations

  5. Improving nurses' compliance with evidence-based falls prevention practices in urology settings: a best practice implementation project.

    Ileana Paula Ionel, Gina Agnes Ciuca, Justin Aurelian, Claudia Elena Dobre · 2026 · PubMed · 0 citations

  6. Human balance as a resonance-governed system: targeted modal attenuation via passive mass coupling

    Alessandro Garofolini, Rezaul Begg · 2026 · Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 0 citations

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