Clinical trials: Near-Falls
Fall Risk, Healthy Elderly
Training the Brain with a Robotic Device for Balance Recovery
The research objective of this study is to determine whether an intervention and associated robotic device called "Assisted Movement with Enhanced Sensation (AMES) can be used to enhance balance recovery following an unexpected…
- Trial name
- NCT02765425
- Testing
- AMES
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Falls, Missteps
Automatic Detection of Falls and Near Falls
The aim of this study is to develop an algorithm to automatically detect falls and near falls, in the elderly and in Parkinson's Disease patients. Subjects will arrive at the investigators' gait laboratory for assessment.
- Trial name
- NCT00948844
- Testing
- Hybrid (3-d accelerometers, and gyroscopes)
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Stroke
Screening Diagnosis of Fall Risk After Stroke and Initial Intervention: A fNIRs Study
This is a functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRs) study designed to screen for risk of falls after diagnosis of stroke and initial intervention.
- Trial name
- NCT06062407
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University
Sleep
Predict Near Future Initiation of Bed Exit
Presence/absence in bed along with heartbeat, respiration, and gross motion in bed will be measured in 48 Budd Terrace residents, a long-term care facility of Emory Healthcare.
- Trial name
- BEDEXIT (NCT01774708)
- Testing
- Pressure sensitive pad
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Atlanta VA Medical Center
Accidental Fall, Aging
Development of the Balance Recovery Falls-Efficacy Scale for the Community-dwelling Older Adults
The first phase of the study aims to study the incidence of near-falls. The second phase will be to develop a scale which operationalize balance recovery confidence in the older adults.
- Conditions
- Accidental Fall, Aging, Self Efficacy
- Trial name
- NCT04087551
- Testing
- Developing the list of items for BRFES
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Queen Margaret University
Idiopathic Fallers
Assessment of a New System to Detect, Quantify and Treat Near Falls in Older Adults
The study is aimed to assess a new system for the automatic detection, quantification and treatment of Near Fall (NF) episodes in healthy older adults with a history of falls.
- Trial name
- NCT01668979
- Testing
- new system to detect Near Falls
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Dementia, Falls
A Study of Why People With Early Memory Problems Fall or Almost Fall
The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that are associated with falls and near falls in community-dwelling older adults with early-stage dementia.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Falls, Near-Falls
- Trial name
- NCT00434889
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Saskatchewan