Estrategias de intervención con ejercicios de fortalecimiento muscular para mejorar la velocidad de la marcha en el adulto mayor

Abstract

Over the years, gait speed decreases and becomes slow, being the main focus of falls and fractures in the worst case, working on muscle strengthening allows the elderly to achieve adequate gait speed and maintain their physical and functional capacity, for this reason the main objective of this project is to evaluate intervention strategies with muscle strengthening exercises to improve gait speed in the elderly. The initial and final evaluation of the muscular strength of the lower limb and the gait speed was carried out with the Daniels scale and the six-meter test, an intervention program with muscular strengthening exercises was designed according to the physical capacity. of older adults. This study is a quantitative investigation with intervention, analytical, prospective, longitudinal, the same one that had 36 older adults who attended 12 weeks of intervention, with 45-minute sessions, 3 times a week. For the correlation between strength and speed, the T Student statistical test was applied, through the statistical program SPSS for Windows version 21.0. When comparing the initial and final evaluations of muscle strength and gait speed, an improvement of 27.8% was found in the optimal muscle strength of the left lower limb and 30.6% in the right, observing an increase in the strength of each older adult; in gait speed, an improvement stands out significantly with 69.9% of participants with normal speed, there is also a significant relationship between (p=0.000) gait speed and muscle strength, because the population where the intervention was performed He spends most of his time active.