摘要：Castro KVB, Alves CHL, Sauaia BA, Furtado AEA, Almeida FJF, Novais TMG, Pulcherio JOB, Oliveira PLL, Chaves LFC, Mostarda CT, Rodrigues B, Gambassi BB. Effects of Low Intensity Resistance Training on the Risk of Falls and Functional Autonomy in the Elderly. JEPonline 2016;19(1):33-38. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of resistance training on the functional autonomy and the risk of falls in 35 elderly (age range, 70 to 75 yrs) who underwent 3 months of training with 2 sessions·wk-1, 50 min·d-1. The Tinetti scale was used to assess the risk of falls and the Group of Latin American Development for the Maturity (GDLAM) protocol was used to evaluate the functional autonomy. The data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test and Spearman correlation. We found that the median Tinetti scale improved from 23 to 25 after the intervention (P=0.002) and the median functional autonomy changed from 31.32 to 24.07 after training (P<0.001). The correlation between risk of falls and functional autonomy was 0.259 (P=0.134). We concluded that the resistance exercise enhances autonomy and reduces the risk of falls in the elderly. However we did not find a correlation between both autonomy and the cited risk.
