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Virtual Reality Training for Walking Improvement in the Elderly

NCT05623462 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-01-14

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Summary

Safe walking needs the older adult to anticipate and respond quickly to external demands and sudden environmental changes. The practice of complex and challenging situations of the usual daily walking is very important to prevent balance loss and falls in the elderly.

Researchers reported that subjects trained in a virtual environment with enhanced feedback performed walking skills better than those trained with conventional methods. The C-Mill treadmill is an innovative device that was recently used for the training of impaired gait and balance. C-Mill treadmill uses virtual reality, augmented feedback, and force plate technology that provides the best solution for efficient functional movement therapy. Therefore, this study will evaluate the efficacy of gait training with a virtual reality treadmill on walking abilities in elderly people.

Conditions

  • Gait, Unsteady

Interventions

DEVICE

The C-Mill virtual reality treadmill

The C-Mill treadmill is an innovative device used for the training of impaired gait and balance. The C-Mill is an instrumented treadmill with interactive virtual reality games and applications.The instrument is supplied with a safety frame, body weight support, treadmill force plates, treadmill belt, adjustable handrails, cameras, user operating system, interactive visual screen and augmented reality projection.

OTHER

Conventional Physical Therapy Program

The Conventional Physical Therapy Program includes the following: \- Indoor open environment gait training exercises (over-ground gait training exercises.). (using obstacles, cones, stepper, balance board , and uneven surfaces) (either between or outside the parallel bar)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Umm Al-Qura University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ehab M Abd El Kafy, PhD · Department of Physical Therapy- Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences - Umm Al Qura University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-01
Primary Completion
2023-03-15
Completion
2023-03-30

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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