Multidirectional Yoga for Cognition

Multidirectional Yoga Training to Improve in Healthy Older Participants

Older individuals, 60-90, will be provided regular or cognitively based yoga training. They will then be evaluated using standard cognitive testing devices.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Standard Yoga; Multi-directional Yoga; Educational Control
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Multi-directional Yoga; Other: Educational Control; Other: Standard Yoga

Detailed Description

Reductions in executive function are common with age. Along with these declines come reductions in simple functional patterns of daily living such as crossing a street, walking in a crowded area, or performing any functions that occurs in an open (changing) environment. This study will use a newly developed yoga program incorporating multi-directional movements, cognitive challenges and visuomotor disturbances to improve executive function and associated movements in persons over 60 years of age.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 40
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Coral Gables, Florida, United States, 33147
      • Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging
    • Coral Gables, Florida, United States, 33146-2416
      • Max Orovitz Laboratories

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 60 years to 90 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 60-90 years of age
• Capable of walking 50 feet with or without a walking aid-

Exclusion Criteria:

• Regularly participating in yoga or other balance training program
• Currently participating in another exercise study
• Unable to commit to study duration
• Uncontrolled neuromuscular or cardiovascular disease that prevents participation in an exercise study
• Advised not to exercise by their physician

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Standard Yoga; Yoga will be performed using linear forward and backward movements.	Other: Multi-directional Yoga; The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses.; Other: Educational Control; Lectures on health and fitness
Experimental: Multi-directional Yoga; The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. .	Other: Educational Control; Lectures on health and fitness; Other: Standard Yoga; Yoga using standard poses and linear movements
Experimental: Educational Control; Lectures on Health and Wellness	Other: Multi-directional Yoga; The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses.; Other: Standard Yoga; Yoga using standard poses and linear movements

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test	Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen.	5 minutes
NIH Toolbox Flanker test	Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it.	5 minutes
NIH Toolbox List Sorting test	Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli.	5 minutes
NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test	Measures speed of processing. Participants discern whether two side-by-side pictures are the same or not, with 85 seconds to respond to as many items as possible. Items are simple so as to purely measure processing speed.	5 minutes
Walking Executive Function Tests	Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor.	10 minutes
Timed up-and-go	Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair.	5 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Miami

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 5, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 15, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): August 15, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 8, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): January 10, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 10, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 9, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 20180704

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No