Falls are a frequent, serious health issue in the elderly population with serious implications. The study has discovered several risk factors. There are multiple options to manage falls. One of the best managements to prevent falls is exercise. However, there is no strong evidence exists on which exercises are the best for the prevention of falls and improvement of balance. This study aims to identify the efficacy of augmented exercises on the fear of falling in elderly populations. This study was a randomized controlled trial, which involves seventy-eight elders, they are all randomly allocated into three groups. Group I, receives augmented exercises for 30 minutes, this group is named AEG (Augmented exercise group), Group II, receives balance training for 30 minutes, this group is named BTG (Balance training group), Group III, receives walking for 30 minutes, this group is named as WEG (Walking exercise group). All the elders underwent treatment for 12 weeks a total of 36 sessions. The main outcomes of this study are fear of falls and postural control. The fear of falls is measured using FES-I, and the postural control is using the modified clinical test of sensory interactions in balance (mCTSIB). The SPSS statistical package 24.0 was used to anal yze the collected data. Results were considered significant at p < 0.05. ANOVA analysis of all three groups using FES-I was 417.34. and for the mCTSIB was 70.02. There were significant changes in all three groups noted. On comparing the AEG with WEG there is a marked difference noted, on comparing the BTG with WEG there is also a marked difference obtained, however, when comparing the AEG with BTG, there is a significant difference obtained. The study concludes that augmented exercises are proven a substantial outcome in the prevention of falls and improvement of balance in the elderly population.

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