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Effects of Whole Body Vibrations on Functional Independence on Older Adults

NCT04963387 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2021-07-15

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Summary

Functional limitation and balance deficits occur with aging in normal healthy individuals due to decline in muscle strength. Muscle strengthening exercises and balance training has shown improvement of functional status of elderly. And whole body vibrations along with strengthen and balance training has been suggested to reduce the effects of aging in balance and functional abilities. Aim of this study was to find out the additional effects of whole body vibration along with balance training in older adults. It was a Randomized Control Trial Study. Study setting was railway general hospital Rawalpindi. Inclusion Criteria was Age 50 to 70 years old people, with moderate fall risk (BBS Score 21-40), both genders with Controlled diabetes and HTN, 112 Subjects were randomly and equally allocated to experimental group(n=56) and control group(n=56) through toss and coin method. Participants in both groups were examined for balance abilities with the Berg Balance Scale, Functional Independence Scale, \& Timed up and Go Test (TUG) before and after 4 weeks treatment protocol.

Conditions

  • Older Adults With Moderate Balance Risk

Interventions

OTHER

Whole body vibration

Balance and muscle strengthening exercises with whole-body vibration, strengthening exercise included straight leg raise with weights, and balance training including walking heel to toe for 20 steps. In this study frequency of 30Hz (4 weeks), with 0.9 mm vertical displacement was used.

OTHER

Balance and Strengthening exercise

Balance and strengthening exercises includes straight leg raise with weights 10 reps. and tandem walk 20 steps 3 days in week for 4 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Lahore

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Esha Khan · University of Lahore

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-03-20
Primary Completion
2019-09-29
Completion
2019-09-29

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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