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TUESDAY, Feb. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Lumbopelvic pain (LPP) is common in well-functioning older adults, according to a study published Feb. 7 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Eleanor M. Simonsick, Ph.D., from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues assessed how LPP affects walking ability in well-functioning older adults (aged 60 to 89 years; 878 participants).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 31.4 percent had mild LPP, and 15.7 percent had moderate-to-severe LPP. Adjusted analyses showed that walking ability (P < 0.001), endurance walk performance (P = 0.007), and energetic cost of walking (P = 0.049) were worse with increasing LPP severity, although usual gait speed did not vary with LPP (P = 0.31). Over an average of 2.3 years of follow-up, participants with new or sustained LPP had worse follow-up level, greater mean decline, and higher likelihood of meaningful decline in reported walking ability versus participants free of LPP or whose LPP resolved.<\/p>\n
“The longitudinal effect of LPP is unclear, but worsening perception of walking ability and its contribution to future mobility loss warrants further attention,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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