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Restoring Skill in Walking

NCT00177359 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2007-12-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of an intervention to improve walking based on motor learning (skill-based) compared to the usual intervention (strength, flexibility and balance-based) on clinical, psychological and laboratory measures of walking and balance of older adults with mobility disability (walking problems).

Conditions

  • Mobility Limitation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

gait intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jessie VanSwearingen, PhD, PT · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-11-30
Completion
2007-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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