Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR)on Sex Differences - Kyphosis Study

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Conditions studied: Kyphosis

In brief

This is a randomized, controlled trial among 100 total males and females with hyperkyphosis, aged 60 years and older, to determine the effects of an exercise intervention that includes high intensity spinal muscle strengthening exercises compared to a usual care waitlist group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01766674

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

112

Starts

2013-02-01

Expected to finish

2016-05-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-11-13

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 60 years and older
• kyphosis >=40 degrees
• medical approval from primary care clinician

You may not qualify if…

• Gait speed <0.6 meters/sec
• inability to rise from a chair with arms crossed at chest
• painful vertebral fractures in the past 3 months
• 3 or more falls in the past year
• advanced disability or end-stage disease
• major psychiatric illness
• cognitive impairment
• alcohol, drug abuse, or narcotic pain medications
• uncontrolled hypertension
• peripheral neuropathy associated with Type I diabetes
• chest pain, myocardial infarction, or cardiac surgery within the previous 6 months
• diagnosed vestibular or neurologic disorder
• total hip or knee replacement or hip fracture within previous 6 months
• oral glucocorticoid medications for ≥ 3 months the past year
• no active movement in thoracic spine
• unable to execute exercise safety tests
• failure to comply with run-in procedures: poor attendance, or use of actigraph,
• non-English speaking

Where it is running

• UCSF — San Francisco, California, United States

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