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Workplace Fall Prevention Through Slip Recovery Training

NCT05740124 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34

Last updated 2025-06-27

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the feasibility of applying slip recovery training, a novel balance training exercise intervention, to workers who are at increased risk of slip-induced falls. This will be done via field studies with industrial partners. Note that the slip recovery training is not a device or drug. It is a detailed exercise regimen that aims to improve the the ability to recover balance after slipping.

The main specific aims are are:

* To investigate the feasibility of on-site slip recovery training
* To validate field assessments for evaluating slip recovery training efficacy in subsequent research

Participants will complete 3-6 once-weekly sessions of slip recovery training, answer daily text messages indicating any falls they experience while working over the 12 weeks after completing slip recovery training, and a subset of workers will be asked to participate in focus group discussions after the 12 weeks to provide information on the long-term feasibility of slip recovery training. A group of workers at Virginia Tech will also be asked to complete a laboratory session of testing during which they will be exposed to a laboratory-induced slip so that gold-standard measures of slip-induced fall recovery can be used to validate field assessments.

Workers who complete slip recovery training will be compared to another group of workers who complete an alternative balance training that should improve balance but not improve slip recovery that is targeted by slip recovery training.

Conditions

  • Accidental Fall

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

slip recovery training

Participants practice volitional and reactive stepping responses that mimic those needed when recovering balance after slipping.

BEHAVIORAL

alternative balance training

Participants practice standing and walking under varied sensory conditions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael L Madigan, PhD · Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-01
Primary Completion
2024-12-15
Completion
2025-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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