Clinical trials: Risk of Falling in the Elderly
Accidental Falls, Postural Balance
Feasibility of High-intensity Functional Exercise With Simultaneous Cognitive Challenge for Older People With Falls Risk
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of a high-intensity functional exercise program with simultaneous cognitive challenge (HIFE+cog) among older people at risk of falls.
- Conditions
- Accidental Falls, Postural Balance, Gait, Cognition
- Trial name
- NCT06774508
- Testing
- HIFE+cog, HIFE
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 33 people
- Sponsor
- Umeå University
Frail Elderly, Fall
Comparison of Smartphone and Community-Based Delivery of the Otago Exercise Program for Fall Risk in Older Adults
The long-term goal of this project is to effectively bridge the research-clinic-community gap and to foster partnerships that support the implementation, utilization, and advocacy of evidence-based fall prevention programs in the…
- Trial name
- NCT07433153
- Testing
- Smartphone-Based Intervention, Group-Based Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Binghamton University
OA Knee
Effects of Tai Chi Exercises on Patients Functional Status With Knee Osteoarthritis
Brief summary The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether Tai Chi exercise, used as an adjunct to standard physiotherapy, can improve balance, functional status, pain, and knee joint mobility in older adults (65-75…
- Trial name
- NCT07428343
- Testing
- Tai Chi training, Comprehensive Inpatient Physiotherapy with other standard therapies, Kinect-Based Virtual Reality Balance Training with Biofeedback
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 96 people
- Sponsor
- Grzegorz Mańko
Fall Injury, Walking, Difficulty
Attentional Focus Instructions and Conscious Movement Processing in Older Adults
This study aims to provide a novel scientific contribution through addressing critical knowledge gaps, examining the effects of attentional focus instructions on real-time (state) conscious movement processing propensity, gait…
- Conditions
- Fall Injury, Walking, Difficulty, Gait, Unsteady
- Trial name
- NCT05411536
- Testing
- Walking trials
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Older Adults With a History of Falls
The Effect of Combined Volitional and Reactive Step Training in Reducing Falls Risk in Older Fallers
To examine the immediate and sustained effect of a 4-week combined volitional and reactive step training on fall risks in community-dwelling older fallers.
- Trial name
- NCT06378164
- Testing
- Exercise, Active Control
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 98 people
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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