Study and Analysis of Biomechanical Parameters of Human Movement Based on Disability Indicators in Older Adults

Completed

• Conditions: Disability
• Interventions: Other: Exposure to disability

• Registration Number: NCT05611723
• Lead Sponsor: Polytechnic Institute of Porto

Brief Summary

Older adults develop modifications in the execution of movement that lead to impairments in activities of daily living performance. Accordingly, there is a need for technological advances in devices that assist older adults targeting improvements in parameters of movement performance that have the highest impact on the skills of daily living. Therefore, to gather the parameters of movement impacting daily living activities, the main goal of this study is to perform a comparative analysis of the biomechanical movement parameters between older adults with and without disability, performing the tasks: gait, sit-to-stand, timed up and go, quiet standing and climb and descend stairs.

This work was supported by theFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), \[grant number 2020.05356.BD\] and through R\&D Units funding \[UIDB/05210/2020\], Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal and the European Union.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-06-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-07-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-03
• Study First Posted: 2022-11-10
• Primary Completion: 2023-04-30
• Status Verified: 2024-11
• Study Completion: 2024-11-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-11-05
• Last Update Posted: 2024-11-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• older adults, 60 years or over;
• community-dwelling;
• able to perform the tasks (gait, sit-to-stand, climb and descend stairs) independently;

Exclusion Criteria

• older adults who are institutionalized;
• older adults who have established diagnosis of malignancy or terminal diseases with an anticipated survival of less than 1 year;
• older adults who have stroke history, cerebral hemorrhage, head trauma, or Parkinson's disease;
• older adults who have cognitive impairment, specifically Mini Mental State Examination (Portuguese version) score of 22 for 0 to 2 years of literacy, 24 for 3 to 6 years of literacy and 27 for more than 6 years of literacy (Morgado et al., 2009);
• older adults who have rheumatic pathologies that interfere with the tasks performance;
• older adults who have diabetic foot, lower limb fracture less than 6 weeks, or other related conditions;
• older adults who have unstable cardiovascular disease, liver or renal function failure;
• older adults who have a body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2;
• older adults who vestibular and/or audition or vision impairments non corrected that influence the performance of tasks;
• older adults who presence of symptoms at the time of evaluation that influences the participant performance of tasks.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Disability Older Adults	Exposure to disability	Disability Older Adults: older adults with disability indicators

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Waveforms from full-body joint angles	During tasks performance	Waveforms from full-body joint angles measured in degrees (°)
Waveform from lower limb joint moments	During tasks performance	Waveform from lower limb joint moments measured in Newton-meter (kgm²/s²)
Waveform from total body energy	During tasks performance	Waveform from total body energy measured in joules (J)
Waveform from centre of mass displacement	During tasks performance	Waveform from centre of mass displacement in m/s
Waveform from centre of pressure displacement	During tasks performance	Waveform from centre of pressure displacement in m/s
Waveform from lower body joint power	During tasks performance	Waveform from lower body joint power measured in Watts
Waveform from full-body angular joint velocities	During tasks performance	Waveform from angular joint velocities measured in degrees per second (°/s)
Waveform from full-body separate segment energy	During tasks performance	Waveform from body segment energy un joules (J)
Waveform from lower body joint forces	During tasks performance	Waveform from lower body joint forces measured in Newton (N)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Center for Rehabilitation Research, School of Health, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal; 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal