Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

May 13, 2019 updated by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

90

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

60 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Fall Exposure
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
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.
No Intervention: Control
Written instructions will be provided on the correct way to fall without physical practice.
Other: Tuck and Roll Group
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
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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Safe Landing Strategy
Time Frame: 1-week and 3-months post

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 Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Retention effects
Time Frame: 3-months post

Examine retention effect of fall strategy training through a composite score from the following:

  1. Participant questionnaire
  2. Track and review which participants attend all four study visits
3-months post

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

January 19, 2020

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2021

Study Completion (Anticipated)

December 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 23, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 25, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

May 30, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 14, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 13, 2019

Last Verified

April 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 17577

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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