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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJMH</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Medical and Health Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJMH</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-1521</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10001</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Medical Education</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Functional exercises and counselling help an out-of-shape elderly patient achieve her functional goals: a case study</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="4" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Dr. Nikhil Khatri</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>Madras Medical College</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-23"><day>23</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2022</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><elocation-id>V1-I1-2023</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-11-09"><day>09</day><month>11</month><year iso-8601-date="2022">2022</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2022-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2022 Krupali Patel Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Krupali Patel</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJMH/currentissue/functional-exercises-and-counselling-help-an-out-of-shape-elderly-patient-achieve-her-functional-goals-a-case-study"/><abstract><p>The&#xD;
process of ageing is usually coupled with comorbid conditions and unique&#xD;
requirements. Because of the growing number of elderly people in the society, a&#xD;
more individualised healthcare system is required. As a result of the&#xD;
contemporary lifestyle, in which every person is engaged with their own&#xD;
responsibilities, retired geriatrics sometimes felt lonely, sometimes griping&#xD;
about the situation and other times learning to accept it as inevitable. In&#xD;
addition to contributing to one's overall health and well-being, regular&#xD;
physical activity lowers one's chance of developing a number of different&#xD;
illnesses. A session of physiotherapy typically lasts between 25 and 35 minutes&#xD;
on average. A patient might be motivated to understand their specific&#xD;
age-related demands by a physiotherapist who has received adequate training.&#xD;
The current way of life necessitates the provision of geriatrics physiotherapy&#xD;
in the comfort of one's own home. This case study makes an effort, via the&#xD;
presentation of an example, to demonstrate how geriatric physiotherapy with&#xD;
counselling is assisting in the achievement of functional objectives in the&#xD;
home without the use of cultured equipment. A 87-year-old woman's family has&#xD;
recommended that she begin exercising under the supervision of a trained expert&#xD;
in order to regain her ADLs. Functional workouts, range-of-motion drills, and liberal&#xD;
resistance training were all part of her therapy regimen. These were followed&#xD;
by a brief (10 minute) counselling session at the conclusion of her treatment&#xD;
plan. Before and after the Intervention, data were analysed using the Barthel&#xD;
Index and the Berg Balance Scale. By the end of therapy, the patient had&#xD;
accomplished her objectives for ADL recovery, and she had also had improvements&#xD;
in her balance; after three follow-up sessions, she was still functioning at&#xD;
the same level as before. The consequences of this case study propose that a&#xD;
combination of functional training and professional counselling is optimal for&#xD;
achieving positive outcomes.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Counseling for the elderly</kwd><kwd> the Barthel Index</kwd><kwd> Functional Exercise</kwd><kwd> the Berg Balance Scale</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I thank the following individuals for their expertise and assistance in all aspects of our study and for their help in writing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the insightful comments given by anonymous peer reviewers. Everyone's generosity and expertise have improved this study in myriad ways and saved me from many errors.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>KlausHauerPhD, BrendaRost, Kirstin R&#xFC;tschle et.al. Exercise Training for Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention of Falls in Geriatric Patients with a History of Injurious Falls. 2001</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
