Participants: Twenty subjects with diabetes mellitus and electrodiagnostically confirmed PN.
Intervention: Ten subjects underwent a 3-week intervention exercise regimen designed to increase rapidly available distal
strength and balance. The other 10 subjects performed a control exercise regimen.
Main Outcome Measures: Unipedal stance time, functional reach, tandem stance time, and score on the activities-specific
balance and confidence (ABC) scale.
Results: The intervention subjects, but not the control sub-jects, showed significant improvement in all 3 clinical measures of balance and nonsignificant improvement on the ABC scale.
Conclusion: A brief, specific exercise regimen improved clinical measures of balance in patients with diabetic PN.
Further studies are needed to determine if this result translates into a lower fall frequency in this high-risk population.
Key Words: Balance; Diabetes mellitus; Exercise; Peripheral nervous system diseases; Rehabilitation.
© 2001 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
Participants: Twenty subjects with diabetes mellitus and electrodiagnostically confirmed PN.Intervention: Ten subjects underwent a 3-week intervention exercise regimen designed to increase rapidly available distalstrength and balance. The other 10 subjects performed a control exercise regimen.Main Outcome Measures: Unipedal stance time, functional reach, tandem stance time, and score on the activities-specificbalance and confidence (ABC) scale.Results: The intervention subjects, but not the control sub-jects, showed significant improvement in all 3 clinical measures of balance and nonsignificant improvement on the ABC scale.Conclusion: A brief, specific exercise regimen improved clinical measures of balance in patients with diabetic PN.Further studies are needed to determine if this result translates into a lower fall frequency in this high-risk population.Key Words: Balance; Diabetes mellitus; Exercise; Peripheral nervous system diseases; Rehabilitation.© 2001 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine andRehabilitation
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