Study of Improving Gait Parameters When Using a Cane in "Light Touch" Condition in Elderly People With and Without Walking Difficulties

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Disorders of Balance
• Interventions: Other: postural task; Other: walk task

• Registration Number: NCT02899845
• Lead Sponsor: Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Brief Summary

This project aims to study the effect of haptic sensory information delivered at the hand using a cane in "light touch" or "light support" condition on postural stability and spatial and temporal gait parameters of elderly subjects with and without walking difficulties

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-11
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-09-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-09-09
• Study First Posted: 2016-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2016-09-14
• Primary Completion: 2016-11
• Study Completion: 2017-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• presence of gait disturbance or balance disorders defined by a geriatric assessment and / or a walking speed test

Exclusion Criteria

• presence of acute problems or central or peripheral neurological severe sequelae
• occurrence of a recent fracture of the lower limbs or spinal fracture
• cognitive disorders
• presence of comorbidities: blindness, heart or severe respiratory failure, disabling osteoarthritis of the hands or legs, severe malnutrition, muscle atrophy, untreated orthostatic hypotension
• patients using a cane to a mechanical support

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
elderly people without walking difficulties	postural task	subjects with no gait disturbance and balance disorders will be recruited from a walking speed test and a standardized geriatric assessment, once the subjects with gait disturbance and balance disorders have been recruited in order to make a match on the age criterion
elderly people with walking difficulties	postural task	subjects with proven gait disturbance and balance will be recruited from a walking speed test and a standardized geriatric assessment by a geriatrician
elderly people with walking difficulties	walk task	subjects with proven gait disturbance and balance will be recruited from a walking speed test and a standardized geriatric assessment by a geriatrician
elderly people without walking difficulties	walk task	subjects with no gait disturbance and balance disorders will be recruited from a walking speed test and a standardized geriatric assessment, once the subjects with gait disturbance and balance disorders have been recruited in order to make a match on the age criterion

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of use of the cane	12 mois

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille; 🇫🇷 Marseille, France