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Motor Training for Fall Prevention

NCT01621958 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 212

Last updated 2019-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Slip-related falls often cause injury; these often have catastrophic consequences, even among the healthiest older persons. Establishing a retainable preventive training regimen against slip-related falls would, without doubt, have major public health implications. In this study, investigators will demonstrate that older adults can significantly reduce their near-term risk of backward balance loss and falls through motor training with multiple protected slip exposure, and such adaptive improvements from such prophylactic training regimen can be retained over the course of a year.

Conditions

  • Fall Prevention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Repeated perturbation training

One session consisting of 24 slips total interspersed with 16 nonslip trials (1 block of 8 slips, 3 non-slips, 2nd block of 8 slips, 3 non-slips, a mixed block consisting of 8 slips and 10 non-slips). Retest consisting of one slip exposure at either 6 months, 9 months or 12 months.

BEHAVIORAL

Minimal perturbation training

One session consisting of a single slip exposure. Retest consisting of one slip exposure at either 6 months, 9 months or 12 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yi-Chung Pai, PhD · University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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