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Effectiveness of an Intervention to Improve Balance and Decrease Falls in the Elderly (EWii)

NCT02570178 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1037

Last updated 2017-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The objectives of this study are to evaluate the usefulness of an intervention utilizing the NintendoTM Wii console in order to improve balance, thereby decreasing both the fear of falling as well as the number of falls, and to evaluate the correlation between balance as determined by the console and the value obtained in the Tinetti tests and the one foot stationary test.

Conditions

  • Postural Balance
  • Accidental Falls
  • Intervention Studies

Interventions

OTHER

balance training

Participants complete 2 sessions per week for 30 minutes each, over a period of three months and are distributed in groups of four individuals carrying out the exercises at once.The groups were led by monitors who had received standardized training. Each participant was barefoot on the balance board, carrying out the different exercises in the balance area of the Wii Fit™ game, according to the indications made on the screen.Eight out of the nine balance exercises were used from the Wii Fit™ game (balance bubble, soccer heading, ski jump, table tilt, ski slalom, penguin slide, snowboard slalom, tightrope walk);.The number of repetitions of each exercise varied depending on the skill of the participants but the total time dedicated to each exercise was the same for all group participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pilar Montero, MD · Catalan Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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