Mobility Limitation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A pilot study of partial unweighted treadmill training in mobility-impaired older adults. 
  • Accelerometer-Measured Hospital Physical Activity and Hospital-Acquired Disability in Older Adults. 
  • Accessibility and accommodations for patients with mobility disabilities in a large healthcare system: How are we doing? 
  • Acute Adverse Events After Spinal Cord Injury and Their Relationship to Long-term Neurologic and Functional Outcomes: Analysis From the North American Clinical Trials Network for Spinal Cord Injury. 
  • Anemia and its impact on function in nursing home residents: what do we know? 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • Association of Vision Impairment and Major Eye Diseases With Mobility and Independence in a Chinese Population. 
  • Association of peripheral artery disease with life-space mobility restriction and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Barriers to mobility during hospitalization from the perspectives of older patients and their nurses and physicians. 
  • Blood pressure and in-hospital outcomes in patients presenting with ischaemic stroke. 
  • Burden of disease in adult patients with hypophosphatasia: Results from two patient-reported surveys. 
  • Care transitions from the hospital to home for patients with mobility impairments: patient and family caregiver experiences. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study. 
  • Community mobility among older adults with reduced kidney function: a study of life-space. 
  • Compensatory strategies used by older adults facing mobility disability. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Depressive symptoms in middle age and the development of later-life functional limitations: the long-term effect of depressive symptoms. 
  • Do geriatric conditions increase risk of adverse drug reactions in ambulatory elders? Results from the VA GEM Drug Study. 
  • Does Caregiving Strain Increase as Patients With and Without Dementia Approach the End of Life? 
  • Effect of a tailored assistive technology intervention on older adults and their family caregiver: a pragmatic study protocol. 
  • Effect of motorized scooters on quality of life and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Effectiveness of interventions to improve occupational performance of people with motor impairments after stroke: an evidence-based review. 
  • Effectiveness of thigh-length graduated compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis after stroke (CLOTS trial 1): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effects of a caregiver-inclusive assistive technology intervention: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of change in physical activity on physical function limitations in older women: mediating roles of physical function performance and self-efficacy. 
  • Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Explaining Disability Trends in the U.S. Elderly and Near-Elderly Population. 
  • Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults. 
  • Factors Associated With Ambulation in Myelomeningocele: A Longitudinal Study From the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. 
  • Free testosterone levels are associated with mobility limitation and physical performance in community-dwelling men: the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Functional Incidental Training: applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing home patient population. 
  • Functional gait outcomes for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus after primary endoscopic third ventriculostomy. 
  • Gait Speed Predicts 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Geriatric Assessment of Physical and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Pilot Study. 
  • Improvement in walking impairment following surgical and endovascular revascularization: Insights from VOYAGER PAD. 
  • Index of suspicion. 
  • Individual, social environmental and physical environmental barriers to achieving 10 000 steps per day among older women. 
  • Informal care and caregiver's health. 
  • Inpatient Mobility Measures As Useful Predictors of Discharge Destination in Hospitalized Older Adults. 
  • Is Discordance Between Recommended and Actual Postacute Discharge Setting a Risk Factor for Readmission in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure? 
  • Late-life Depression Modifies the Association Between Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensities and Functional Decline Among Older Adults. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance and use of compensatory strategies for mobility. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance, self-reported mobility difficulty, and use of compensatory strategies for mobility by elderly women. 
  • Meal-based enhancement of protein quality and quantity during weight loss in obese older adults with mobility limitations: rationale and design for the MEASUR-UP trial. 
  • Medical utilization and cost outcomes for poststroke veterans who receive assistive technology devices from the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Metabolic syndrome predicts mobility decline in a community-based sample of older adults. 
  • Mobility Improvements are Found in Older Veterans After 6-Months of Gerofit Regardless of BMI Classification. 
  • Mobility-related assistive technology device classifications: implications for outcomes research. 
  • Noncardiac comorbidities in heart failure with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction. 
  • One size does not fit all-mobility device type affects speed, collisions, fatigue, and pain. 
  • Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy in Patients With Prestroke Mobility Impairment. 
  • Pathways, Contributors, and Correlates of Functional Limitation Across Specialties: Workshop Summary. 
  • Physical Function Does Not Predict Care Assessment Need Score in Older Veterans. 
  • Physical Performance Predictor Measures in Older Adults With Falls-Related Emergency Department Visits. 
  • Powered mobility for middle-aged and older adults: systematic review of outcomes and appraisal of published evidence. 
  • Preoperative Disability in US Veterans. 
  • Prevalence of Activity Limitations and Association with Multimorbidity Among US Adults 50 to 64 Years Old. 
  • Prevalence, correlates and perceived causes of limitations in activities of daily living among older Singaporeans. 
  • Quantifying six-minute walk induced gait deterioration with inertial sensors in multiple sclerosis subjects. 
  • Regular Exercise, Quality of Life, and Mobility in Parkinson's Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis of National Parkinson Foundation Quality Improvement Initiative Data. 
  • Relation between prefracture characteristics and perioperative complications in the elderly adult patient with hip fracture. 
  • Restricted activity and persistent pain following motor vehicle collision among older adults: a multicenter prospective cohort study. 
  • Sarcopenia Should Reflect the Contribution of Age-Associated Changes in Skeletal Muscle to Risk of Morbidity and Mortality in Elderly People. 
  • Sarcopenia with limited mobility: an international consensus. 
  • Stem cell use in a patient with an ischemic foot ulcer: a case study. 
  • Strong Relation Between Muscle Mass Determined by D3-creatine Dilution, Physical Performance, and Incidence of Falls and Mobility Limitations in a Prospective Cohort of Older Men. 
  • Symptoms, Mobility and Function, and Quality of Life in Adults With Acute Leukemia During Initial Hospitalization. 
  • The Association of Frailty With In-Hospital Bleeding Among Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the ACTION Registry. 
  • The Importance of Muscle Versus Fat Mass in Sarcopenic Obesity: A Re-evaluation Using D3-Creatine Muscle Mass Versus DXA Lean Mass Measurements. 
  • The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults. 
  • The effects of in-home rehabilitation on task self-efficacy in mobility-impaired adults: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • The effects of total hip arthroplasty on physical functioning in the older population. 
  • The effects of total knee arthroplasty on physical functioning and health among the under age 65 population. 
  • The effects of total knee arthroplasty on physical functioning in the older population. 
  • The future of the provision process for mobility assistive technology: a survey of providers. 
  • The impact of typical neovascular age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy on vision-related quality of life in Asian patients. 
  • The prevalence and impact of scoliosis in Pompe disease: lessons learned from the Pompe Registry. 
  • Towards "mobility is medicine": Socioecological factors and hospital mobility in older adults. 
  • Trajectories of mobility and IADL function in older patients diagnosed with major depression. 
  • Using step activity monitoring to characterize ambulatory activity in community-dwelling older adults. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Case, Laura Elizabeth, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Medical Genetics
  • Hall, Katherine Shepherd, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology