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BMC Geriatrics BioMed Central Study protocol Open Access A perturbation-based balance training program for older adults: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial 1,2 2 3,4 1,2,5 Avril Mansfield , Amy L Peters , Barbara A Liu and Brian E Maki* Address: 1Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2Centre for Studies in Aging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada , 3Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and 5Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Email: Avril Mansfield - avril.mansfield@utoronto.ca; Amy L Peters - amy.peters@sri.utoronto.ca; Barbara A Liu - barbara.liu@sunnybrook.ca; Brian E Maki* - brian.maki@sri.utoronto.ca * Corresponding author Published: 31 May 2007 Received: 20 December 2006 Accepted: 31 May 2007 BMC Geriatrics 2007, 7:12 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-7-12 This article is available from: /1471-2318/7/12 © 2007 Mansfield et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Pr