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Exercise Assessment and Program Design for The Complete Guide for Balance Training

Course Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the statistics relating to falls in older adults.
  • List the risk factors associated with falls.
  • Describe the body’s physiological mechanisms that reduce fall risk.
  • Describe age-related changes to the body’s fall risk reduction mechanisms.
  • Describe the components of a multifactorial fall prevention program.
  • Discuss the effectiveness of exercise in reducing fall risk.
  • List several objective and subjective assessments of fall risk in older adults.
  • Guidance on implementing 3 functional assessments (functional reach test, timed up and go test, 30 second chair stand test).
  • Utilize assessment results to properly select the components of the exercise program.
  • Properly regress and progress exercise program components.

Christian J. Thompson, Ph.D.

Christian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of San Francisco, an affiliate researcher in Neurology at UCSF Medical Center, and the owner of Thompson Fitness Solutions, LLC.  Christian has published scientific articles on exercise programming for older adults in peer-reviewed journals such as Translational Journal of the ACSM, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, and Journal of Applied Research.

Christian has been delivering balance training and fall risk reduction exercise programs to thousands of older San Franciscans since 2007 in the city-wide Always Active program (www.alwaysactive.org).  Chris’ professional service includes sitting on the advisory board of Vivo Fitness, the Medical Fitness Education Foundation and the Functional Aging Institute.  He serves as editor for the ACSM Health Fitness Journal.  He has also been the Chair of ACSM’s Interest Group on Aging and a member of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Summit Planning Committee.  

Christian is a member of the newly formed AgeWell Collective as well as a featured author of continuing education on older adult fitness programming hosted by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has developed educational content for IDEA and TRX Training.  He has written for numerous lay and industry publications such as the ACSM Health Fitness Journal, PFP Magazine, IDEA Fitness Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Clinic Health Newsletter, Arthritis Advisor, and GOLF Magazine.

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