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Study NCT ID:
NCT00177359
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2007-12-13
First Post:
2005-09-12
Brief Title:
Restoring Skill in Walking
Sponsor:
University of Pittsburgh
Organization:
University of Pittsburgh
Study Overview
Official Title:
Restoring Skill in Walking
Status:
COMPLETED
Status Verified Date:
2007-12
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of an intervention to improve walking based on motor learning skill-based compared to the usual intervention strength flexibility and balance-based on clinical psychological and laboratory measures of walking and balance of older adults with mobility disability walking problems
Detailed Description:
While therapeutic exercise to improve mobility and balance appears to improve physical performance and may reduce falls less is known about the responsiveness to specific interventions or the relation between response to intervention and the underlying problems or impairments Therapeutic approaches for improving mobility and reducing fall risk are heterogeneous but do not consistently focus on problem solving as a method of enhancing motor control or skill an approach that has been found to be important for motor learning in animal models
This two-year pilot study will allows us to compare the clinical psychological and laboratory outcomes after a motor-learning based and an impairment-targeted exercise intervention to improve walking in older adults All subjects will participate in pre and post intervention testing and a 12 week exercise intervention for gait involving either a motor learning skill enhancement or impairment-targeted lower extremity strengthening flexibility and gait cues
This two-year pilot study will allows us to compare the clinical psychological and laboratory outcomes after a motor-learning based and an impairment-targeted exercise intervention to improve walking in older adults All subjects will participate in pre and post intervention testing and a 12 week exercise intervention for gait involving either a motor learning skill enhancement or impairment-targeted lower extremity strengthening flexibility and gait cues
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None