The effects of physiotherapy on selected indicators in elderly women.

Rehabilitation protocols One group will participate in the general rehabilitation exercises (GRE), and the other in dance movement therapy (DMT). Both GRE and DMT rehabilitation programs will last for 5 months (three sessions per week). In line with the motor rehabilitation guidelines for geriatric patients, each single session will last no longer than 45-50 minutes and the intensity of exercising will be corresponded to no more than 40-60% of heart rate reserve. Both GRE and DMT rehabilitation programs will be supervised by a physical therapist. Exercise sessions will group-based at the study site, at University of Physical Education in Cracow. Attendance of the sessions will be register. The GRE program will be consisted of 5-10-minute warm-up, 30-minute endurance and balance training and 5-10-minute cool-down. Strengthening exercise training will include low-level progressive resistance exercise with light free weights, exercise ladders and exercise benches. The participants will perform 10-15 repetitions of each exercise, with a resistance corresponding to 40-60% of one-repetition maximum. Each DMT session will be followed the same protocol. It will start with a low-intensity warm-up lasting 5-10 minutes and preparing the participants to a more strenuous exercise. The main phase of each training session will be included selected steps and figures of folk dance, ballroom dance and integration dance, as well as practicing predefined and modified choreographies, dancing-gymnastic exercises and dancing improvisation. The final phase of each training session will be lasted 5-10 minutes and included cooling-down with breathing and relaxation exercises, as well as stretching exercises aimed at optimization of the training effects.