The Effects of Cognitive-motor Training in Healthy Older Adults

Summary

Currently, there is a growing concern for the elderly population and for what the increase in life expectancy entails, and that is why many authors investigate about exercise protocols that delay the appearance of both cognitive and motor diseases and how to link both in your day to day. Despite this, there is still little information about training with DT tasks that improve the life of the elderly and that is why this study aims to evaluate the effect of an eight-week training program in older adults healthy, in the improvement of balance and proprioception of the knee, with the inclusion of a cognitive task performed simultaneously. We hypothesize that the inclusion of the double motor-cognitive task in the training sessions will improve the performance in the balance and proprioception tests performed with the simultaneous cognitive task after 8 weeks compared to the control group.

Conditions

• Proprioception Change
• Balance Change
• Cognitive Change

Interventions

OTHER

Cognitive-motor training

A DT training protocol of 8 weeks duration was carried out, during 2 days a week, with a duration of 30 minutes each session divided into: warm-up (mobility and warm-up 5 '), main part (20') and cool down (5 'dynamic stretching). The main part consisted of a choreography divided into five measures of thirty-two beats each, in turn divided into four parts of eight movements, which included proprioception and balance exercises such as: squats, imbalances, lateral movements, front, standing on one leg, twist, etc. The sessions evolved from individual exercises, in pairs, in trios and finally in groups. The sessions included music that was unknown to the subjects but at the same time easy to learn, so that while they performed the motor tasks, they would memorize the songs. The sessions were carried out by the main researcher who controlled both the technique of the exercises and motivated them to sing and perform a cognitive exercise.

OTHER

Motor training

A training protocol of 8 weeks duration was carried out, during 2 days a week, with a duration of 30 minutes each session divided into: warm-up (mobility and warm-up 5 '), main part (20') and cool down (5 'dynamic stretching). The main part consisted of a choreography divided into five measures of thirty-two beats each, in turn divided into four parts of eight movements, which included proprioception and balance exercises such as: squats, imbalances, lateral movements, front, standing on one leg, twist, etc. The sessions evolved from individual exercises, in pairs, in trios and finally in groups.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ainhoa Nieto Guisado

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Mónica Solana-Tramunt

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University Ramon Llull

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mónica Solana-Tramunt · University Ramon Llull

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Max Age

85 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-10-05

Primary Completion

2020-07-01

Completion

2021-05-30

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations