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Study of WiiFit to Enhance Walking in Older Adult Amputees

NCT01942798 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2024-07-23

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Summary

WiiNWALK is a 4 week physical activity, with the intervention of a WiiFit, targeted to improve walking capacity in individuals with either a unilateral below-knee or above-knee amputation. This is a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the WiiNWALK program in older (50+ years) community living adults with lower limb amputations (LLA).

Hypothesis: We expect the WiiNWALK intervention will have a treatment effect with improvement in functional walking capacity, compared to the control group who will only be playing cognitive games. Secondarily, a functional walking capacity will also include an improvement in lower extremity strength and balance, inter-limb gait symmetry, balance confidence along with participation in daily and social activities, locomotor capabilities and an increase in physical activities.

Conditions

  • Lower Limb Amputation
  • Older Adults

Interventions

DEVICE

Nintendo Wii

Subjects will receive the intervention for 40-minute sessions, 3x/week for 4 weeks. The interventions will be administered in combination of onsite group training and individualized home-based training.

DEVICE

Wii Big Brain Academy Degree program

Subjects will receive the intervention for 40-minute sessions, 3x/week for 4 weeks. The interventions will be administered in combination of onsite group training and individualized home-based training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • William C Miller · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2019-05-08
Completion
2019-05-08

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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