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The Effect of Training With Custom-Made Biomechanical Perturbation Platform on Kinetics, Kinematics and Electromyography in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

NCT00724139 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2008-07-29

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Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of specific repetitive biomechanical perturbation training on motor patterns.

The first hypothesis of this project is that footwear derived biomechanical challenges will convey active and passive matching biomechanical responses (i.e. kinetic, kinematic and electromyographic) trough out the musculoskeletal kinematic chain.

The second hypothesis of the project is that repetitive exposure to in-situ (trough out the gait sickle) introduction to a biomechanical stimulus would generate a process of motor learning thus conveying plasticity of existing locomotor patterns and gait strategies.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

: APOS biomechanical gait system, Apos - Sports and Medical Technologies Ltd. Hertzlia, Israel

training program utilizing a novel biomechanical system comprising four modular elements attached onto foot-worn platforms which conveys perturbation throughout the gait cycle

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-05-31
Completion
2009-05-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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