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Improving Balance Through Balance Exercise

NCT03227666 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2017-09-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Today most fracture prevention measures targets the bone and osteoporosis. However, only about 20% of individuals with fractures have osteoporosis and at least 90% of all fractures are caused by a fall. Therefore, the present project builds on previous findings from our group identifying postural sway as an important risk factor for falls and aims to intervene against this risk factor in a randomized controlled trial targeting subjects at the highest risk for falls.

Conditions

  • Balance; Distorted
  • Fall

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

The intervention group will perform three supervised group training sessions a week, consisting of 30 minutes of balance training for 4 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swedish Research Council, Kamprad Family Foundation, Kempe Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Region Västerbotten

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Anna Nordström, PhD · Västerbotten County Council, Umeå University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-01
Primary Completion
2017-08-12
Completion
2017-08-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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