Longevitypreliminary · human dataDiscovery of the day
Across 14 trials with 2797 older adults with osteoporosis or osteopenia, exercise training that mixed balance, resistance and aerobic work roughly halved the rate of falls and significantly reduced fear of falling.
- Study design
- Meta-analysis
- Journal
- J Geriatr Phys Ther
- Evidence
- preliminary
What it shows: Encouraging but shakier than it looks: results pooled from 14 trials in 2797 older adults with weakened bones, yet all but one trial had a high risk of bias and the studies disagreed with each other substantially. The direction of benefit is convincing; the exact size is not.Meta-analysis · J Geriatr Phys Ther
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Examine the Effectiveness of Exercise Training in People With Osteoporosis or Osteopenia Compared to Other Rehabilitation Interventions on Fear of Falling and the Number of Falls. J Geriatr Phys Ther 2026Read the study →