Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

NCT03540082 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 17577
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief 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.

Conditions

Fall Prevention; Fall Injury; Fall Safety

Keywords

Aging; Older Adults; Fall prevention; Fall safety; Safe landing

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 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: 1. Forceplate measurements (CueFors2, Motek Medical) 2. Motion capture (VICON, Oxford Metrics) 3. Inertial sensor (BioStampRC, MC10) 4. 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 Outcomes (1)

• Retention effects

  3-months post

Study Arms (3)

Fall Exposure

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

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.

Other: Fall Exposure

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Written instructions will be provided on the correct way to fall without physical practice.

Tuck and Roll Group

OTHER

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.

Other: Tuck and Roll Group

Interventions

Tuck and Roll Group OTHER

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.

Tuck and Roll Group

Fall Exposure OTHER

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.

Fall Exposure

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 60 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• BMI 18.5-30 kg/m2
• Healthy bone mass (2.5 SD of young)
• No tumbling experience

You may not qualify if:

• \> 70 years old
• Bone fracture within 3 years
• Osteoporosis
• Blood thinners

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: lead

Central Study Contacts

Emily Pike

CONTACT

2172447006; epike@illinois.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 23, 2018
• First Posted: May 30, 2018
• Study Start: January 19, 2020
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2021
• Study Completion: December 1, 2021
• Last Updated: May 14, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04