Fall Clinical Trial
Official title:
Subsensory Stochastic Vibratory Stimulation to Assess and Improve Aging Related Proprioceptive Deficits Associated With Balance Recovery
Falls are the primary cause of traumatic injury in older adults, and tripping is the leading cause of falls. A robust method for improving aging-related proprioceptive deficits is lacking, while strong evidence shows that proprioception deficits are highly associated with poor balance recovery from tripping. Previous research suggested that stochastic vibratory stimulation (SVS) can influence proprioception (i.e., muscle spindle function) among healthy controls; however, it is not clear how older adults with deficits in muscle spindle function would react to SVS. In previous work the investigators showed promising findings of standing balance and timed-up-and-go (TUG) improvements using SVS among high fall risk older adults with history of fall 15-18. They will implement SVS in the current project to improve aging-related proprioceptive deficits. The hypothesis is that SVS improves muscle spindle function and balance recovery from tripping in older adults with proprioceptive deficits.
In this study investigators will assess the application of a novel methodology, stochastic vibratory stimulation (SVS), for enhancing proprioceptive performance in high fall risk older adults. It is hypothesized that SVS can alter muscle spindle activation. In high fall risk older adults, this additional activation effect on muscle spindle can improve deficits in proprioception. Two groups of low and high fall risk older adults, aged 65 and older, will be recruited. Both groups will go through several testing, including fall risk assessment, clinical questionnaires, proprioceptive measurement, and treadmill perturbation. Investigators will perform Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) for fall screening, which includes: 1) fall history, unsteadiness, and fear of falling; 2) timed-up-and-go; 3) 30-second chair stand; and 4) four stage Romberg balance test. Questionnaires include: 1) fear of falling (Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I)); 2) cognition (Montreal Cognitive Assessment - MoCA); 3) comorbidity (CMS Hierarchical Condition Category - CMS-HCC); 4) depression (Patient Health Questionnaire - PHQ-9); 5) pain in lower-extremity (Visual Analog Scale - VAS); and 6) vestibular-related symptoms (Dizziness Handicap Inventory - DHI). For proprioceptive measurement, investigators will assess joint position sense for ankle and hip with and without SVS. In both tests, participants perform the assessments in a safe platform. For the ankle joint, investigators will assess targeted angles of 5° and 10° plantarflexion and 5° dorsiflexion in random order. For the hip joint, participants will flex the trunk and be instructed to stop at 25, 50, and 75% of the range of motion in a random order. Further, both groups of participants will be exposed to low-speed treadmill perturbation (sudden backward treadmill movement to impose a trip-like disturbance) with and without SVS. During the perturbation, participants will be protected from falling using a secure harness. SVS will be applied to the ankle and hip muscles randomly in two separate sessions to influence proprioceptive performance from each of these sites. For the ankle joint SVS will be applied to tibialis anterior, peroneus longus, soleus, gastrocnemius, and for the hip joint it will be applied to quadriceps, gluteus medius, and paraspinals. In each session, after practicing and warming up twice at a slow treadmill speed (0.1m/s), each participant will go through six trials of perturbation within two bouts (0.35m/s), one with SVS and one without. To minimize the anticipation effect, one trial of forward belt movement will be randomly assigned (0.2m/s). All participants will be exposed to all testing conditions (ankle and hip SVS exposures). Investigators will measure balance recovery performance from the treadmill perturbation based on kinematics and muscle activity measures using wearable sensors. Kinematics outcomes will assess response time, recovery step execution, and lower-extremity and trunk motion during recovery. Assessment of muscle activity will provide insights regarding the onset of muscle activities during the balance recovery for tibialis anterior, peroneus longus, soleus, gastrocnemius, quadriceps, and paraspinals, using surface electromyography. Investigators will perform multivariable repeated measures analysis using mixed effects modeling to assess: 1) the effect of vibration area on each individual balance recovery outcome; and 2) the association between ankle (or hip) proprioceptive performance and ankle (or hip) SVS-imposed changes in balance recovery outcomes. ;
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