Motor Training for Fall Prevention
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Conditions studied: Fall Prevention
In brief
Slip-related falls often cause injury; these often have catastrophic consequences, even among the healthiest older persons. Establishing a retainable preventive training regimen against slip-related falls would, without doubt, have major public health implications. In this study, investigators will demonstrate that older adults can significantly reduce their near-term risk of backward balance loss and falls through motor training with multiple protected slip exposure, and such adaptive improvements from such prophylactic training regimen can be retained over the course of a year.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01621958
- Run by
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- People needed
- 212
- Starts
- 2008-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-11-06
Who can join
Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Subjects with no known history of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, or pulmonary impairment that may affect their ability to perform the testing procedures will be included.
- Subjects in the balance-impaired group will specifically include subjects with unilateral or bilateral vestibular disorders and individuals with balance deterioration due to aging.
- Subjects in this group must be able ambulate independently for at least 5 meters and score 48/56 on the Berg Balance Scale, and must have no Central Nervous System disorders beyond vestibular disorders and no central/peripheral motor impairments.
You may not qualify if…
- The exclusion criteria include the following:
- using any sedative of any type,
- having known history of osteoporosis,
- having any clinically significant functional impairment related to a specific musculoskeletal, neurological, or cardiopulmonary disease,
- ultrasound calcaneus bone mineral density T score < -1 (osteoporosis )
- Mini-Mental State exam score < 25 (impaired cognition),
- timed up-and-go > 13.5 sec (impaired mobility).
Where it is running
- Clinical Gait and Movement Analysis Laboratory — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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