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The goal of this study is to investigate the effects of a novel form of balance training called trip training. Trip training typically involves repeatedly exposing an individual to trip-like losses of balance on a specialized treadmill. This repeated exposure can lead to improvements in responses to trips while walking in the future, thereby reducing the risk of falling after a trip. Trip training typically is commonly conducted using a costly specialized treadmill. This study will evaluate the efficacy of a trip training protocol that does not require a treadmill. Adults age 65-80 will be assigned to either 1) non-treadmill trip training, 2) treadmill trip training, or 3) no intervention. The investigators hypothesized that responses to laboratory-induced trips would be better after non-treadmill trip training compared to no intervention, and that there would be no statistical difference between responses to laboratory-induced trips after non-treadmill trip training and treadmill trip training. The results from this work will advance the use of trip training, and may enable its wider use by establishing a protocol that does not require a costly treadmill.


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NCT number NCT05734443
Study type Interventional
Source Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date November 1, 2022
Completion date August 1, 2023

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