Trip Recovery Training Without a Specialized Treadmill

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Accidental Fall

Clinical Trial Details

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

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