METHODS

Design:

randomised controlled trial.

Allocation:

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Blinding:

blinded (data collectors).*

Follow up period:

12 weeks.

Setting:

community leisure centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Patients:

98 elderly women ⩾70 years of age (mean age 74 y) who were medically fit to participate in an exercise programme. Exclusion criteria included recent fractures, unstable cardiovascular or metabolic diseases, and musculoskeletal disease or other chronic illness that might limit training or testing.

Intervention:

(i) FTP (core exercises done for >2 of 4 domains …