Effect of Adaptive Training for Balance Recovery
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 65 - Any |
| Updated: | 4/2/2016 |
| Start Date: | January 2013 |
| End Date: | June 2018 |
| Contact: | Yiru Wang, MS |
| Email: | ywang327@uic.edu |
| Phone: | 312-355-3988 |
Perturbation Training for Fall-risk Reduction Among Older Adults
The long-term objective of this research is a prophylactic approach that can reduce the
incidence of falls and the resulting injuries among older adults at risk and thus reduce its
escalating medical cost. This project explores perturbation training through the use of
treadmill device and a motor learning approach, in which experience with slip-like
perturbation generated by that treadmill is used to prepare the motor system to develop and
then put to use fall-resisting skills outside of training environment (cross-environment
transfer). The computer-controlled treadmill is portable, safe and easy to operate, thus
conducive for use in clinics or community centers. The study logically builds on and
complements the team's previous and current research programs, and will further test that
after such a single session, older adults at risk can retain such cross-environment transfer
and reduce their likelihood of falls in everyday living for the next 6 to 12 months.
Finally, the study will explore that such reduction of falls does not come merely from these
persons' familiarity with the training or testing setup, protocol and environments.
incidence of falls and the resulting injuries among older adults at risk and thus reduce its
escalating medical cost. This project explores perturbation training through the use of
treadmill device and a motor learning approach, in which experience with slip-like
perturbation generated by that treadmill is used to prepare the motor system to develop and
then put to use fall-resisting skills outside of training environment (cross-environment
transfer). The computer-controlled treadmill is portable, safe and easy to operate, thus
conducive for use in clinics or community centers. The study logically builds on and
complements the team's previous and current research programs, and will further test that
after such a single session, older adults at risk can retain such cross-environment transfer
and reduce their likelihood of falls in everyday living for the next 6 to 12 months.
Finally, the study will explore that such reduction of falls does not come merely from these
persons' familiarity with the training or testing setup, protocol and environments.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with no known history of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, or
pulmonary impairment that may affect their ability to perform the testing procedures
will be included.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Ultrasound calcaneus bone mineral density T score < -2.5 (osteoporotic)
- Mini-Mental State exam score < 25 (cognitive impairment)
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