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Age-Related Gait Changes and Hip Flexibility

NCT00924261 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2009-09-04

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Summary

Based on their preliminary quantitative gait findings suggesting that limited passive hip extension range is a key functionally limiting impairment affecting gait, the investigators propose a supervised, specific stretching exercise with the aim to improve both peak hip extension and overall gait performance. While one goal is to demonstrate that reduced peak passive hip extension is a key, functionally significant, but reversible, impairment another is to improve our understanding of the relationship between impairment, functional limitation and gait ability.

Conditions

  • Gait
  • Flexibility

Interventions

OTHER

Hip Stretch

Hip flexor stretch daily for 3 min x 10 weeks

OTHER

Shoulder Stretch

Shoulder Adduction stretch - 3 minutes, daily, for 10 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Virginia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Diedre C Kerrigan, MD, MS · University of Virginia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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