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Effect of Gait Training With a Walking Assist Robot on Gait Function and Balance in Elderly Adults

NCT03325998 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8

Last updated 2018-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of gait training with the new wearable hip assist robot developed by Samsung Advance Institute of Technology (Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, Korea) in elderly adults.

Conditions

  • Gait, Unsteady
  • Healthy

Interventions

DEVICE

Samsung Hip Assist v1

All subjects receive gait training 3 times per week for 8 weeks for 24 training sessions. Each session is directed by a licensed physical therapist and lasted 60 min including rest period of 10 min. Brain activity and gait assessment is performed at visits 0 (baseline), 24 (post-test), and at 3 months (follow-up) after training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Samsung Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yun-Hee Kim, MD, PhD · Samsung Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
84 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-01
Primary Completion
2018-02-28
Completion
2018-02-28

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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