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ActiveStep Comparative Effectiveness Trial

NCT01006967 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 506

Last updated 2018-07-16

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Summary

The investigators are conducting a multi-center randomized prospective trial comparing a standard physical therapy gait and balance program with a gait and balance program that includes the ActiveStep™ treadmill.

Subjects will be randomized to either have the ActiveStep™ as part of their therapy or to have their therapy without it. Data will be gathered from session notes, medical records and short interviews with the subjects at baseline and every 3 months over the telephone for the duration of the study.

Conditions

  • Gait Disorders

Interventions

DEVICE

ActiveStep Treadmill

The ActiveStep treadmill is a device that trains patients to effectively react to simulated slips and trips while the patient is safely held in a harness.

OTHER

Physical Therapy

Standard program of physical therapy for gait and balance

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Jon D. Lurie

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jon D Lurie, M.D., M.S. · Dartmouth College

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-11-30
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2016-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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