Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Fall Injury; Fall Prevention; Fall Safety
• Interventions: Other: Fall Exposure; Other: Tuck and Roll Group

• Registration Number: NCT03540082
• Lead Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-03-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-05-25
• Study First Posted: 2018-05-30
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-05-13
• Last Update Posted: 2019-05-14
• Study Start: 2020-01-19
• Primary Completion: 2021-12-01
• Study Completion: 2021-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

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 & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Fall Exposure	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.
Tuck and Roll Group	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Safe Landing Strategy	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

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Retention effects	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