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NCT Number: NCT03799640

Multidirectional Yoga for Cognition

Older individuals, 60-90, will be provided regular or cognitively based yoga training. They will then be evaluated using standard cognitive testing devices.

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Key information

Conditions

Standard Yoga Educational Control Multi-directional Yoga

Age range

60 year–90 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging, Coral Gables, Florida, United States

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About this study

Reductions in executive function are common with age. Along with these declines come reductions in simple functional patterns of daily living such as crossing a street, walking in a crowded area, or performing any functions that occurs in an open (changing) environment. This study will use a newly developed yoga program incorporating multi-directional movements, cognitive challenges and visuomotor disturbances to improve executive function and associated movements in persons over 60 years of age.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 60-90 years of age
  • Capable of walking 50 feet with or without a walking aid-

Exclusion criteria

  • Regularly participating in yoga or other balance training program
  • Currently participating in another exercise study
  • Unable to commit to study duration
  • Uncontrolled neuromuscular or cardiovascular disease that prevents participation in an exercise study
  • Advised not to exercise by their physician

Treatment and study plan

Standard Yoga

Other

Yoga using standard poses and linear movements

Multi-directional Yoga

Other

The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses.

Educational Control

Other

Lectures on health and fitness

Primary outcomes

  1. NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen.

  2. NIH Toolbox Flanker test

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it.

  3. NIH Toolbox List Sorting test

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli.

  4. NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    Measures speed of processing. Participants discern whether two side-by-side pictures are the same or not, with 85 seconds to respond to as many items as possible. Items are simple so as to purely measure processing speed.

  5. Walking Executive Function Tests

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor.

  6. Timed up-and-go

    Time frame: 5 minutes

    Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Miami

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Registry information

Official study title

Multidirectional Yoga Training to Improve in Healthy Older Participants

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jan 10, 2019
Registry last updated
Sep 10, 2019

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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