Using the Arms to Drive the Legs During Walking

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Metabolic Cost of Walking With Arm Swing Assistive Device
• Interventions: Device: Arm Swing Driven Assistive Apparatus

• Registration Number: NCT03689647
• Lead Sponsor: University of Houston

Brief Summary

This study aims to understand and compare the metabolic and mechanical demands placed on the body while walking normally and walking with the use of an apparatus that drives leg swing through the use of the arms. This information will help the investigators identify how arm swing mechanics helps minimize energy demands and to use this knowledge to design walking rehabilitation interventions in the future.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2018-09
• Study First Submitted: 2018-09-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-09-27
• Study First Posted: 2018-09-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-09-28
• Study Start: 2018-10-01
• Last Update Posted: 2018-10-02
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-31
• Study Completion: 2018-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Apparently healthy and free from neurological disease and/or body related injury
• Community-dwelling young men and women 18-36 yrs
• Use and be contacted by telephone
• Speak, read, understand, and complete a questionnaire in English
• Body mass index < 30 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria

• not of the specified age range or Body Mass Index
• inadequate aerobic fitness training
• answering "no" to question #3 on Screening Form ("Is participant in good general health?")
• answering "yes" to:
• question #4 ("any difficulty with mobility?")
• question #5 ("problems with balance/dizziness?")
• question #6 ("lingering symptoms/pain from injury?")
• question #7 ("chest pain/shortness of breath?")
• question #8 ("high blood pressure/hypertension?"), or
• questions #9, 10, 11 ("first degree family history of heart attack?")
• question #12 ("smoke cigarettes?")
• question #13 ("diabetes?")
• question #14 ("high cholesterol?")
• question #15 ("Is participant pregnant?")

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Single Group Experimental	Arm Swing Driven Assistive Apparatus	Each participant will act as their own control with variables of interest measured while walking without the assistive device and while walking with the assistive device.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Metabolic Cost	Change from walking without assistive apparatus to walking with assistive apparatus. Measures of metabolic cost are completed within a 3-hour time window during a single laboratory visit.	Change in Metabolic Cost