FICSIT

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Acronym	Definition
FICSIT	Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques (clinical trial)

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The Atlanta FICSIT group also used a computerized balance training system.

Update on falls prevention for community-dwelling older adults: review of single and multifactorial intervention programs

The Atlanta FICSIT study: two exercise interventions to reduce frailty in elders.

Proximal femoral fracture: achievements and prospects

The Boston FICSIT study: The effects of resistance training and nutritional supplementation on physical frailty in the oldest old.

Strength training and falls among older adults: a community-based TR intervention

Those who are physically active have lower mortality than sedentary individuals (Fried et al., 1998; Kaplan et al., 1987; Kaplan, 1997; Kushi et al., 1997; Paffenbarger et al., 1993; Sherman, D'Agostino, Cobb, & Kannel, 1994) and have higher physical functioning (Guralnik & Kaplan, 1989; Judge, Schechtman, Cress, & the FICSIT Group, 1996; Kaplan, Strawbridge, Camacho, & Cohen, 1993) despite the usual decline in functioning seen with increasing age (Maddox & Clark, 1992).

Physical activity determinants of older women: what influences activity? (CE Series)

Factors affecting sample selection in a randomized trial of balance enhancement: the FICSIT study.

Physical activity and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, insulin-like growth factor I and testosterone in healthy active elderly people

Baseline measures of static balance were the Romberg Test (Romberg 1853) and the Frailty and Injuries Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques (FICSIT) (Rossiter-Fornoff et al 1995).

Choosing outcome measures that reflect what is important to the patient: a case study of Clinical Pilates in a woman with multiple sclerosis

The multicenter Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies on Intervention Techniques (FICSIT) RCTs represented the first systematic and large-scale attempt to investigate the efficacy of exercise (both targeted and nontargeted) on a mutually agreed upon set of performance measures related to frailty and fall incidence rates among older adults.

Preventing falls among older adults: no "one size suits all" intervention strategy