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Mimicking Slipping Responses Using a Novel Mechanical Perturbation Algorithm

NCT05890755 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 43

Last updated 2025-08-28

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Summary

Healthy subjects will be invited to fill out a questionnaire regarding falls and balance skills followed by normal walking trials on a treadmill at 9 different speeds (0.28-1.4 m/s). Key gait parameters for the normative database will be collected. During the perturbation trials, the subjects will walk at a constant speed (1.2 m/s). The treadmill belts are ac, - or decelerated during the perturbations according to three different perturbation algorithms with varying perturbation onset. Movements will be analyzed by 3D motion capture, force plates, surface electromyography and IMU sensors. All methods are non-invasive and commonly used in the field of biomechanics.

Conditions

  • Gait, Stumbling
  • Gait, Perturbation

Interventions

OTHER

Mechanical pertubation

Acceleration or deacceleration of one treadmill gait belt.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Zurich

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Linard Filli, Dr. · University of Zurich

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-06
Primary Completion
2024-12-06
Completion
2024-12-06

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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