| Trial name or title |
Effect of adaptive training for balance recovery |
| Methods |
RCT |
| Participants |
N = 308
Inclusion criteria: ≥ 65 years old, healthy, no known history of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, or pulmonary impairment that may affect their ability to perform the testing procedures
Exclusion criteria: Ultrasound calcaneus bone mineral density T score < −2.5 (osteoporotic), MMSE score < 25 (cognitive impairment) |
| Interventions |
1. Treadmill slip perturbation: perturbation training on a treadmill with precisely‐controlled slip‐like displacements and then encounter an unannounced novel slip during over‐ground walking
2. Treadmill training placebo: placebo training (on the same treadmill for the same duration but without perturbation) but encounter an identical novel slip during their over‐ground walking
3. Observation training: watching a training video and slides, so when exposed to an identical novel slip in over‐ground walking, they will know where and how the slip is going to occur and how to resist a fall |
| Outcomes |
1. Fall incidence, 1 year
2. Dynamic stability, 6 months |
| Starting date |
June 2014 |
| Contact information |
Yi‐Chung (Clive) Pai, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Notes |
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