Multidirectional Yoga for Cognition

Educational Control Clinical Trial

Official title:

Multidirectional Yoga Training to Improve in Healthy Older Participants

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03799640
• Other study ID #: 20180704
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 5, 2018
• Est. completion date: August 15, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: University of Miami
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Description:

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: August 15, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 15, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Educational Control
• Multi-directional Yoga
• Standard Yoga

Intervention

Other:
• Standard Yoga
Yoga using standard poses and linear movements
• Multi-directional Yoga
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
Lectures on health and fitness

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging	Coral Gables	Florida
United States	Max Orovitz Laboratories	Coral Gables	Florida

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Miami

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test	Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen.	5 minutes
Primary	NIH Toolbox Flanker test	Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it.	5 minutes
Primary	NIH Toolbox List Sorting test	Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli.	5 minutes
Primary	NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test	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 minutes
Primary	Walking Executive Function Tests	Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor.	10 minutes
Primary	Timed up-and-go	Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair.	5 minutes