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| J S BrachSummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Use of stance time variability for predicting mobility disability in community-dwelling older persons: a prospective studyJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Geriatr Phys Ther 35:112-7. 2012....
The association between physical function and lifestyle activity and exercise in the health, aging and body composition studyJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia 15260, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:502-9. 2004..To determine whether older adults who exercise demonstrate higher levels of physical function than those who do not exercise but are physically active throughout the day...- Gait variability and the risk of incident mobility disability in community-dwelling older adultsJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 62:983-8. 2007..Gait speed is a strong predictor of incident walking disability. The objective was to determine if gait variability adds to the prediction of incident mobility disability independent of gait speed... 
Incident physical disability in people with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease: the role of cardiovascular diseaseJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1037-44. 2008..To evaluate the risk of incident physical disability and the decline in gait speed over a 6-year follow-up associated with a low ankle-arm index (AAI) in older adults...- Diabetes mellitus and gait dysfunction: possible explanatory factorsJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 88:1365-74. 2008..Limited information regarding potential explanatory factors for this association exists. This study examined the association between diabetes and gait characteristics in older adults and explored potential explanatory factors... - The reliability and validity of measures of gait variability in community-dwelling older adultsJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:2293-6. 2008..To examine the test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of variability of gait characteristics... - Meaningful change in measures of gait variability in older adultsJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Gait Posture 31:175-9. 2010..This study estimated clinically meaningful change in measures of gait variability using both distribution- and anchor-based approaches... - The relationship among physical activity, obesity, and physical function in community-dwelling older womenJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Prev Med 39:74-80. 2004..The relationship between obesity and physical function is not well understood. Physical activity may be a key factor impacting on the relationship between obesity and physical function... - Physical activity and functional status in community-dwelling older women: a 14-year prospective studyJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:2565-71. 2003..Short-term prospective studies have shown physical activity to be related to functional status. To our knowledge, the association between physical activity levels and functional status over a longer period has not been established... - Validation of a measure of smoothness of walkingJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:136-41. 2011.... - A new approach of measuring muscle impairment during a functional task: quadriceps muscle activity recorded during chair standJ S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 56:M767-70. 2001..The purpose of this study was to describe a new approach of measuring muscle impairment during a functional task... - Identifying early decline of physical function in community-dwelling older women: performance-based and self-report measuresJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 82:320-8. 2002..The purpose of this study was to compare the descriptions of physical function in community-dwelling older women obtained using performance-based and self-report measures... - Stance time and step width variability have unique contributing impairments in older personsJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Gait Posture 27:431-9. 2008..Specific patterns of gait variability may imply different underlying causes. Types of gait variability should be specified. Interventions may be targeted at specific types of gait variability... - Challenging gait conditions predict 1-year decline in gait speed in older adults with apparently normal gaitJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 91:1857-64. 2011..Tests of walking during challenging conditions may uncover mobility difficulty that is not identified with usual gait testing... - Physical impairment and disability: relationship to performance of activities of daily living in community-dwelling older menJennifer S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 82:752-61. 2002..Targeting interventions for physical impairments and disabilities related to function may improve the effectiveness of physical therapist interventions and reduce the loss of independence among community-dwelling older people... - Gait variability in community-dwelling older adultsJ S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 49:1646-50. 2001..Improvement in step-length and step-width variability with attempted acceleration might be a key factor to examine in future studies of disability risk and therapeutic interventions... - Making geriatric assessment work: selecting useful measuresJ M VanSwearingen
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phys Ther 81:1233-52. 2001..Two scenarios, applying the measures to the assessment of community-dwelling well older people and to the assessment of community-dwelling frail older people, are used to illustrate how this information can be used... - Impact of health perception, balance perception, fall history, balance performance, and gait speed on walking activity in older adultsJaime B Talkowski
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 88:1474-81. 2008.... - A randomized trial of two forms of therapeutic activity to improve walking: effect on the energy cost of walkingJessie M VanSwearingen
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1190-8. 2009..Because walking may also be energy inefficient in people with decreased mobility, another approach is to reduce energy cost by improving timing and coordination (TC) of movement... - Walking skill can be assessed in older adults: validity of the Figure-of-8 Walk TestRebecca J Hess
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, 6035 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 90:89-99. 2010..The Figure-of-8 Walk Test (F8W) involves straight and curved paths and was designed to represent walking skill in everyday life... - Physical activity and gallbladder disease determined by ultrasonographyAndrea M Kriska
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 39:1927-32. 2007..Several prospective studies have suggested that physical activity may decrease the risk for symptomatic gallbladder disease. None of these studies were able to include subjects with asymptomatic gallstones in their case group... - Physical performance and a test of gaze stabilization in older adultsBryan K Ward
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Otol Neurotol 31:168-72. 2010.... - Physical activity and decreased risk of clinical gallstone disease among post-menopausal womenKristi L Storti
Department of Epidemiology, 505 Parran Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Prev Med 41:772-7. 2005..Physical activity may play a role in preventing gallstone disease... - Validity of a questionnaire to assess historical physical activity in older womenCarena S Winters-Hart
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:2082-7. 2004..To compare historical physical activity recall to original physical activity questionnaires collected at four time points over a 17-yr period in postmenopausal women... - Gait speed and step-count monitor accuracy in community-dwelling older adultsKristi L Storti
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 40:59-64. 2008..Activity monitors are quite popular, although it has been suggested that they are less accurate at slow gait speeds... - Influence of marital status on physical activity levels among older adultsKelley K Pettee
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:541-6. 2006.... - Relationships among body composition measures in community-dwelling older womenKristi L Storti
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:244-51. 2006..To examine whether simple anthropometric measures provide a good estimate of total and visceral fat in 146 community-dwelling, older white women (mean age, 74.0 +/- 4.1 years)... - The relationship between convenience of destinations and walking levels in older womenWendy C King
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:74-82. 2003.... - Changes in facial movement and synkinesis with facial neuromuscular reeducationJessie M VanSwearingen
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 111:2370-5. 2003 - Association of long-distance corridor walk performance with mortality, cardiovascular disease, mobility limitation, and disabilityAnne B Newman
Department of Epidemiology, Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
JAMA 295:2018-26. 2006..Extended walking tests have been examined as outcome predictors in medically ill populations but not in community-dwelling older adults... - Using activity monitors to measure physical activity in free-living conditionsJaime E Berlin
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 86:1137-45. 2006 - Objective measures of neighborhood environment and physical activity in older womenWendy C King
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Prev Med 28:461-9. 2005..Yet, most older women are not regularly active. This study attempts to identify objectively measured attributes of the neighborhood environment that may be associated with physical activity levels in older women... - Physical therapy for facial paralysis: a tailored treatment approachJ S Brach
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 79:397-404. 1999..This case report describes a classification system used to guide treatment and to monitor recovery of an individual with facial paralysis... - Patient participation and physical activity during rehabilitation and future functional outcomes in patients after hip fractureJaime B Talkowski
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:618-22. 2009..We hypothesized those participants who were more active during rehabilitation would have higher participation scores and better functional outcomes after hip fracture compared with those who were less active... - Validation of a treatment-based classification system for individuals with facial neuromotor disordersJ M VanSwearingen
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Phys Ther 78:678-89. 1998..A method for linking treatments to signs and symptoms of facial neuromotor disorders is needed. We describe the construct validation of a treatment-based classification system for facial neuromotor disorders... - Harmonic ratios: a quantification of step to step symmetryJ L Bellanca
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Biomech 46:828-31. 2013..We suggest that the HR method may be better defined, not as a measure of rhythmicity or stability, but as a measure of step-to-step symmetry within a stride... - Use of self-report to predict ability to walk 400 meters in mobility-limited older adultsStephen P Sayers
Human Physiology Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:2099-103. 2004.... - Gait variability in older adults: observational rating validated by comparison with a computerized walkway gold standardWen Ni Wennie Huang
Department of Physical Therapy, I Shou University, Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China
Phys Ther 88:1146-53. 2008..The purpose of this study was to validate an observational rating of gait variability for routine clinical practice... - Lifestyle factors and incident mobility limitation in obese and non-obese older adultsAnnemarie Koster
Department of Health Care Studies, Medical Sociology Section, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:3122-32. 2007..This study examines the association between incident mobility limitation and 4 lifestyle factors: smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity, and diet in well-functioning obese (n = 667) and non-obese (n = 2027) older adults... - Prognostic value of usual gait speed in well-functioning older people--results from the Health, Aging and Body Composition StudyMatteo Cesari
Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, College of Medicine, Institute on Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32608, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1675-80. 2005..To define clinically relevant cutpoints for usual gait speed and to investigate their predictive value for health-related events in older persons... - Concordance and discordance between two measures of lower extremity function: 400 meter self-paced walk and SPPBStephen P Sayers
Human Physiology Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 18:100-6. 2006..A secondary purpose was to determine whether the 400-m W could better discriminate physical performance among high functioning older adults by examining the distribution of 400-m W scores... - Dog ownership, walking behavior, and maintained mobility in late lifeRoland J Thorpe
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Balitmore Maryland 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1419-24. 2006..To examine dog walking among dog owners and the relationship between walking behavior of dog owners and non-dog owners and maintained gait speed over 3 years...
Research Grants
- Gait Variability: Epidemiology, Assessment & ManagementJennifer Brach; Fiscal Year: 2007..The final project (project 3) will be a small RCT to examine exercise interventions to improve gait variability and adaptability in older persons. ..