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Biofeedback Gait Retraining to Reduce Lower Extremity Impact in Obese Children

NCT02580825 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2018-03-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to explore if self biofeedback program can reduce ground reaction force (GRF) from the lower extremity of the body and in the knee in particular and help obese children to avoid knee injuries.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Biofeedback gait retraining

Each session will include a continuous exercise in which the patient will do walking, walking pace and running (3 minutes each section). During the meeting, participant will receive biofeedback that will displayed on a computer screen that shows the forces that develop in the knee joint so that the patient can see graphically the forces that develop around the knee joint and will be guided / try to reduce the values of the graph by changing the intensity of his landing on the tracks. In all training the time that the biofeedback is shown will be reduced.

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Each session will include a continuous exercise in which the patient will do walking, walking pace and running (3 minutes each section).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Meir Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alon Eliakim, MD · Meir Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-08-31
Completion
2017-10-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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