Tai Chi Exercise in Older People

NCT01039779 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 456

Last updated 2015-05-19

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Summary

The effects of tai chi exercise and lower-extremity training on improving the primary outcome and secondary outcomes among older people will be compared.

Conditions

  • Fallers Aged 60 Years and Older

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Exercise will be taught every week over the 6-month intervention period at a subject's residence by instructors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

    collaborator OTHER
  • Taipei Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mau-Roung Lin, Ph.D. · Taipei Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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