Ultrasound for Healthy Aging
NCT07168525 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20
Last updated 2025-11-17
Summary
The investigators will study the effects of an ultrasound bath device that uses low-frequency ultrasound on the healthy aging. Participants will have before and after ultrasound assessments of muscle and thinking skills, aging related to the immune system, and body make-up. The group that is assigned to get the ultrasound will have low-frequency ultrasound in a bathtub for 45 minutes, three times weekly for 8 weeks, and the control group will be in the bathtub without the ultrasound turned on.
Conditions
- Aging
Interventions
- DEVICE
-
Ultrasound spa
Each participant will sit in a bathtub which has been fitted with an ultrasound device which produces low frequency sound waves within the water.
- OTHER
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Sham ultrasound spa
The control group will sit in the same tub for 45 minutes, 3 times per week for 8 weeks but without the ultrasound being turned on.
Sponsors & Collaborators
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Xprize Foundation
collaborator UNKNOWN -
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
lead OTHER
Principal Investigators
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Blake Rasmussen, PhD · The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Study Design
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE_CARE
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Model
- PARALLEL
Eligibility
- Min Age
- 70 Years
- Sex
- ALL
- Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Timeline & Regulatory
- Start
- 2025-10-29
- Primary Completion
- 2026-10-01
- Completion
- 2026-12-31
- FDA Device
- Yes
Countries
- United States
Study Locations
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