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Optimizing Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance for Walking Across the Life Span

NCT04033146 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2024-06-21

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Summary

The investigators seek to determine whether ankle exoskeletons can reduce metabolic energy expenditure during walking for users across the age-spectrum.

Conditions

  • Aging

Interventions

DEVICE

Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance

The investigators will use ankle-exoskeletons to modulate the amount of mechanical power generated by the user's ankle joint. That is, participants will walk in a robotic device that either (a) adds a spring or (b) a motor in parallel with their calf muscles to help them generate a stronger propulsive push-off that could reduce the effort of walking.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gregory S Sawicki, Ph.D. · Georgia Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-04
Primary Completion
2023-05-23
Completion
2023-05-23
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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