Reactive Balance Training for Fall Prevention
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Official title
Reactive Balance Training for Fall Prevention: a Comparative Study of Three Different Perturbation Devices
Brief summary
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The objective of this pilot study is to evaluate and compare the effect of three different perturbation based training devices on the reactive balance control among healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and neurologically impaired stroke individuals. Furthermore, the project aims to determine the feasibility and tolerability of 30-minutes of perturbation training using the SureFooted Trainer. Overall, the project directs to find out the long term effect of training on fall risk reduction and fall prevention. This study investigates the effects of perturbation training (slip and trip) based on the principles of motor learning. Perturbations in the form of slips and trips induced by the three different types of perturbation devices will displace the center of mass outside the base of support and challenge the stability, thereby inducing a fall and demand compensatory strategies in order to prevent it. Such perturbation training would train the motor system to improve stability control and vertical limb support. The project design aims to examine the ability of the central nervous system to mitigate the interference in stability control (if any) that is induced by opposing types of perturbations. The hypothesis of this study if supported by the results, will provide the difference in motor learning with training on three different perturbation devices. Furthermore, it would help to determine which of the three training devices is the most effective in developing defense mechanisms necessary to reduce fall-risk among community-living older adults and the neurological population.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04205279
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 90 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Experimental: Treadmill training Other
- Experimental: Overground training Other
- Experimental: Surefooted training Other
Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 31, 2018
- Primary completion
- May 30, 2027
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2027
- Last update posted
- Jul 5, 2026
2018 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago | Illinois | 60612 | Recruiting |
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