Step Rate in Recreational Runners

Gait Disorder, Sensorimotor Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of a Home Training Program on Preferred Step Rate in Recreational Runners

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03057522
• Other study ID #: 16-008532
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: November 2018
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This will be a pilot study to determine if a 6 week home training program can increase preferred step rate (cadence) in recreational runners. Increase in step rate has been correlated with decreased stress at lower limb joints in runners. This has the potential of decreasing overuse injuries in this population.

Research participants will have their preferred cadence evaluated at the beginning of the study. The athletes will be randomly assigned to two groups. One group will continue to train without intervention and the other group will train at a cadence of 10% higher than their preferred step rate.

At the end of 6 weeks the participants will have their preferred cadence reevaluated using the same method as pre-participation cadence was determined.

The investigators hypothesis the preferred running cadence of recreational runners following the intervention will be 5-10% greater than prior to the intervention and the increased cadence will be maintained for 6 months following the intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• healthy male or female runners

• 18 years of age or greater

• run two or more times per week most weeks of the year for at least 4 years

• cadence of 85 strides/min or less as determined at initial evaluation

• no musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses that would limit running in the last 6 months

• currently running at least 15 miles a week

Exclusion criteria:

• baseline running cadence greater than 85 strides/min

• inability to run

• cardiovascular disease

• greater than 2 cardiovascular risk factors

• peripheral vascular disease

• neurological disease

• musculoskeletal injury or disease that causes pain with running

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Gait Disorder, Sensorimotor
• Gait Disorders, Neurologic

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Change in running cadence
The intervention will involve a home exercise program designed to increase the running cadence in recreational runners.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Mayo Clinic in Rochester	Rochester	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayo Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Running cadence	Running cadence (steps per minute) will be evaluated using a running cadence sensor to determine if the intervention subjects increased their running cadence by 10 steps per minute following the intervention.	6 weeks
Primary	Running cadence	Running cadence (steps per minute) will be evaluated using a running cadence sensor to determine if the intervention subjects maintained their increased running cadence for 6 months following the intervention.	6 months