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More Singing, Less Swinging - Is Singing Related to Improved Postural Control?

NCT05350436 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2022-09-19

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Summary

This study will investigate the extent to which singing affects balance and breathing.

Singing therapy has potential as an adjunct or component of falls prevention programmes and in the treatment of breathing hypervigilance. Reducing fall risk, and levels of hypervigilance and anxiety could have widespread benefits on participants participation and quality of life.

Investigators will aim to recruit both singers and non singers from older and younger adult age groups. Investigators will then be able to determine the balance response in untrained healthy young adults to understand the affects of singing training and aging on balance. The participants' balance will be measured via a force plate as they perform a series of speaking and singing tasks. Other outcomes will include breathing specific anxiety and attention to breathing, and balance specific anxiety and attention to balance.

Conditions

  • Healthy Aging
  • Balance; Distorted
  • Singing

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Balance Conditions

Balance Conditions: (\~ 5 minutes in total) * Balance Condition 1 (Feet 20cm apart) * Balance Condition 2 (Feet together) * Balance Condition 3 (Tandem stance) Initial measurements of balance conditions serve two purposes: it generates a postural control baseline for us without the attribution of singing conditions, furthermore it allows us to separately measure long-term singing experience's effect on postural control, by assessing tasks differing in difficulty level. Balance conditions will be randomised to prevent a learning effect.

BEHAVIORAL

Singing

Singing Conditions: (\~ 15 minutes) * Warmup - including jaw and breathing exercises * Singing Condition 1 (Spoken Happy Birthday - Traditional Tempo) * Singing Condition 2 (Sung Happy Birthday - Traditional Tempo * Singing Condition 3 (Spoken Happy Birthday - Fast Tempo) * Singing Condition 4 (Sung Happy Birthday - Fast Tempo) * Singing Condition 5 (Spoken Happy Birthday - Slow Tempo) * Singing Condition 6 (Sung Happy Birthday - Slow Tempo) Link to singing instructional video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tro58i6vx6i6w3a/Singing%20Balance%20Exercise%20Video.mp4?dl=0 Time stamps for the video: * Warmup (including jaw exercises and breathing exercises) - beginning at 2:55 until 6:06 * Happy Birthday protocol - beginning at 15:26 until 20:21

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brunel University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-25
Primary Completion
2023-04-10
Completion
2023-04-10

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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