Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

Fall Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03540082
• Other study ID #: 17577
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 19, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Contact: Emily Pike
• Phone: 2172447006
• Email: epike[@]illinois.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purposes of this project to examine whether older adults can learn safe landing strategy during a fall. The research hypotheses are three-fold: 1) To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling; 2) To examine whether the training effect on the right side falls can be transferred to the left side falls; and 3) To examine 1-week and 3-month retention effect of fall strategy training in older adults.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 90
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• BMI 18.5-30 kg/m2

• Healthy bone mass (2.5 SD of young)

• No tumbling experience

Exclusion Criteria:

• > 70 years old

• Bone fracture within 3 years

• Osteoporosis

• Blood thinners

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fall Injury
• Fall Prevention
• Fall Safety

Intervention

Other:
• Tuck and Roll Group
An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.
• Fall Exposure
An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Safe Landing Strategy	To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling through a composite outcome from the following measures: Forceplate measurements (CueFors2, Motek Medical); Motion capture (VICON, Oxford Metrics); Inertial sensor (BioStampRC, MC10); Short-term skill acquisition (Aim 1) will be quantified as change in hip impact force between baseline and post assessments on visit 4	1-week and 3-months post
Secondary	Retention effects	Examine retention effect of fall strategy training through a composite score from the following: Participant questionnaire; Track and review which participants attend all four study visits	3-months post