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Community-based Tai Chi, Balance, and Fall Risk

NCT04173936 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 405

Last updated 2019-11-22

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Summary

Aims: Examine the effects of a community Tai Chi program on measures of balance and sensorimotor function.

Methods: In a pre-test and post-test design, balance was measured in older adults (N=344; 73.4±7.4 years) with 30-second chair stand, timed-up and go, and 4-stage balance test following a 12-week community-based tai chi intervention. Balance measures and additional sensorimotor measures, including hip abductor electromechanical delay and hip proprioception, were measured in a smaller sample of older adults (n=11; 67.3±3.7 years).

Conditions

  • Postural Balance
  • Fall
  • Proprioceptive Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

tai chi

12-week community-based tai chi program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina at Asheville

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jason R Wingert, Phd · UNC Asheville

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-11
Primary Completion
2017-06-15
Completion
2017-06-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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