Impact of Brief Daily Functional Resistance Training on Lower Extremity Physical Performance

Recruiting now · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Mobility Limitation

In brief

In this study, we will randomly assign 360 older adults to 12 months of 5 minutes per day of functional resistance training or to a delayed treatment control condition, and measure the impact of the training on measures of lower extremity performance and walking ability.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06396247

Run by

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

People needed

360

Starts

2025-04-09

Expected to finish

2028-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-22

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Self-reported difficulty or inability to walk ¼ mile

You may not qualify if…

• Chest pain on the PAR-Q

Where it is running

• Penn State College of Medicine — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)
• University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.