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NCT Number: NCT01690611

Visual Feedback to Improve Balance During Walking

The goal of this research is to determine if real time visual feedback of body movements improves balance control more than walking on a treadmill alone. Individuals participating in this research study will be tested using a battery of clinical strength and balance assessments twice before a 4 week training period and once after the training period. The 4 week training period will consist of 12 sessions walking on a treadmill. The experimental group will see real time visual feedback regarding their body movements, and the control group will not receive this visual feedback. Following the 4 week training each participant will again be tested using the battery of clinical strength and balance assessments.

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Key information

Conditions

Other Fall Patient Falls

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Collington Episcopal Life Care Community, Mitchellville, Maryland, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Fall Prone Older Adults (history of falls or loss of balance)
  • ability to walk on the treadmill hands-free without assistance
  • Mini-Mental Status Exam > 23

Exclusion criteria

  • Current enrollment in physical rehabilitation of any kind
  • Medically unstable

Treatment and study plan

Treadmill Walking

Procedure

Individuals will walk at a "comfortable speed" on a treadmill without holding on to the hand rails.

Visual feedback

Other

Real time feedback regarding body motion while walking.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in BESTest Score, A clinical assessment of balance

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

    Balance Evaluation System Test (BESTest)

  2. Change from Baseline in Berg Balance Test Score

    Time frame: Test will be given at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

  3. Change from Baseline in Activity Specific Balance Confidence Score

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

    Questionnaire rating balance confidence

  4. Change from Baseline in 6 Minute Walk Test

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

  5. Change from Baseline in Comfortable Walking Speed

    Time frame: Measured daily, up to 12 days

    This value is determined for each training session

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in Muscle Strength

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

    Strength of major muscles in the legs and trunk will be measured

  2. Change from Baseline in Overground Walking Speed

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

  3. Change from Baseline in Center of Mass variability

    Time frame: Tested daily, up to 12 days

    This measure is derived from recorded body position during each training repetition for each of up to 12 days of training.

  4. Change from Baseline in Power spectral density

    Time frame: Tested daily, up to 12 days

    This measure is derived from recorded body position during each training repetition for each of up to 12 days of training.

  5. Change from Baseline in Single/Dual Tasking ability

    Time frame: Tested at 0, 4, and 8 weeks

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Temple University

Other

Collaborators

  • University of Maryland

Registry information

Official study title

Sensory Treadmill to Improve of Balance During Walking

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Sep 24, 2012
Registry last updated
Apr 21, 2016

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