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Task-Specific Training vs. Yoga (With and Without Perturbation) for Balance and Leg Strength in Older Adults

NCT06875388 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2025-03-26

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Summary

This experimental study is designed to observe the effectiveness of task-specific training vs yoga with and without perturbation on reactive balance and leg strength in older individuals in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Older adults meeting the criteria will be grouped into 4 intervention groups. One group will be doing task-specific training, the second will be doing yoga poses, the third will be doing task-specific with perturbation, and 4th will be doing yoga poses with perturbation.

Baseline readings through manual release from lean, minbest test, manual muscle testing (MMT), WHO quality of life, Barthel index, 30-sec sit-to-stand test, Stroop test, and mini-mental state examination, will be taken before starting the intervention, and post-intervention readings will be taken after 3 months of intervention. After this, all readings will be retaken 1 month after stopping the intervention

Conditions

  • Cognitive Functioning of Healthy Individuals
  • Balance
  • Strength, Muscle
  • Quality of Life (QOL)

Interventions

OTHER

Task specific Training

Group A will receive a basic protocol of 40 minutes involving 10 minutes of warm up 10 10 mins of task-specific training 10 mins of leg strength exercises and 10 mins of cool-down exercises.

OTHER

Specific Yoga Poses

For group B, a series of yoga poses will be applied. Each training session consists of a 10-minute warm-up, 20 minutes of yoga exercises, and a 10-minute cool-down.

OTHER

Tasl specific Training with perturbation

GGroup C will be 40 minutes involving 10 minutes of warm-up 10 minutes of task-specific training involving perturbation 10 mins of leg strength exercises involving perturbation and 10 mins of cool-down exercises.

OTHER

Specific yoga poses with perturbation

Group D training session consists of a 10-minute warm-up, 20 minutes of yoga exercises with perturbation, and a 10-minute cool-down

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Saima Gul Associate Professor, PhD · Shifa Tammer e Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-09
Primary Completion
2025-06-30
Completion
2025-07-31

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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