Dr. Shelby Leach OD
Optometrist (Pediatric) | Pediatrics
33 W 42ND ST NEW YORK NY, 10036About
Shelby Leach is a pediatric optometrist practicing in NEW YORK, NY. Shelby specializes in providing eye care services to children. As an optometrist, Shelby performs eye evaluations, tests vision, corrects vision by prescribing eye glasses or contacts, detects certain eye disorders and manages and treats vision problems. Shelby is specifically trained to examine and treat visual disorders in children. Pediatric optometrists will typically prescribe children glasses until age 12, and around 12 years of age children can be prescribed contact lenses.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hormone replacement therapy increases isometric muscle strength of adductor pollicis in post-menopausal women.
- Follow-up study of the benefits of hormone replacement therapy on isometric muscle strength of adductor pollicis in postmenopausal women.
- Effects of physical activity on postural stability.
- Exercise and injury prevention in older people.
- Do dual tasks have an added value over single tasks for balance assessment in fall prevention programs? A mini-review.
- Attitudes and beliefs to the uptake and maintenance of physical activity among community-dwelling South Asians aged 60-70 years: a qualitative study.
- Associations between objectively-measured sedentary behaviour and physical activity with bone mineral density in adults and older adults, the NHANES study.
- Review of how we should define (and measure) adherence in studies examining older adults' participation in exercise classes.
- Reducing falls among older people in general practice: The ProAct65+ exercise intervention trial.
- TAxonomy of Self-reported Sedentary behaviour Tools (TASST) framework for development, comparison and evaluation of self-report tools: content analysis and systematic review.
- Effects of resistance training on strength, power, and selected functional abilities of women aged 75 and older.
- Strength, power and related functional ability of healthy people aged 65-89 years.
- Applied physiology of strength and power in old age.
- Muscle function of women aged 65-89 years meeting two sets of health criteria.
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