The exclusion criteria were neurological disease or sequelae
impacting on the capacity to balance; orthopedic diseases with
symptomology including joint pain that impact on daily activities
or independent walking; sequelae from traumas that compromise
the ability to balance or to walk; blindness or severely impaired
sight that impacts on the ability to walk independently; dependency
to perform any daily activity, including mobility within
the community and moderate or severe arterial hypertension at
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