The investigation of effect and durability of selected aerobic trainings on dynamic balance in healthy elderly females

Falling is a prevalent problem among the elderly people and the most important factor in elderly people falling is balance changing. This study was semi-experimental type with design of post-test- pretest and control group. In this study 60 healthy elderly females were selected in region 6 of Tehran municipality at Golha and Aghaghia parks. Then, subjects randomly divided in two equal control and experimental groups. The experimental group participated in an 8 weeks aerobic training program and the control group accomplished the activity of daily living. After 8 weeks that pretest was applied from each of groups, succeeding that the experimental group training was ceased and 8 weeks after that Y test was applied again. Repeated measure ANOVA, One-way ANOVA, and Post-hoc tests were used for data analyzing. The results indicate that the selected aerobic training used in this study have a positive effect on elderly female dynamic balance improvement. Because the aerobic trainings are simple and useable in different places especially in home and public environments such as parks and also they are inexpensive, they can be present as an alternative for balance training in water and clubs.