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Power Training Versus Strength Training in the Elderly

NCT02852668 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2016-08-02

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Summary

The inexorable decline in motor skills during aging provides the investigators with an elderly population with various functional limitations. Among these, the ability to walk, being associated with the risk of falling has been studied by several authors. The adoption of strength and power training as an intervention strategy to reduce the negative effects arising from the physiological or pathological process of aging has been widely discussed in these studies. However, the effects of these interventions on biomechanical gait indicators have not been fully debated yet. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of these two training protocols on functional capacities and biomechanical gait parameters of elderly women.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

Power Training

This experimental groups underwent an intervention period of power training

OTHER

Strength Training

This experimental groups underwent an intervention period of strength training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alberto C Amadio, PhD · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2012-01-31

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