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Older adults often fall due to problems negotiating obstacles; such falls can involve both cognitive and motor deficits. Interventions to prevent falls have targeted both types of impairment, but usually separately. To look at them together, researchers enrolled 282 older community-living adults (age range, 60–90) who reported at least two falls in the previous 6 months; participants were randomized to either traditional treadmill training or training on a treadmill outfitted with a virtual reality (VR) screen that displayed the actual position of the patient's feet and a program of simulated obstacles and distractors. Patients attended three 45-minute sessions weekly for 6 weeks; speed and duration of walking were progressively increased f…