Evaluation of age-related differences in dynamic balance as fall protection - associations with functional status
- Conditions
- FallsGait and functional status
- Registration Number
- DRKS00020363
- Lead Sponsor
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Fakultät VI Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Department für Versorgungsforschung, Abteilung für Geriatrie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Young healthy adults:
- = 30 yrs of age and = 18 yrs
- Normal lower limb function
Healthy older adults:
- = 70 yrs of age
- Being able to walk with or without a walking aid independently or under supervision
Older adults with a fall history, not patient in the rehabilitation center:
- = 70 yrs of age
- Being able to walk with or without a walking aid independently or under supervision
Older adults with a fall history and patient in the rehabilitation center:
- = 70 yrs of age
- Being able to walk without a walking aid in the geriatric ward
- Week three of rehabilitation
- Body mass > 135 kg (technical limitation)
- Height > 185 cm (technical limitation)
- Joint replacement surgery in the past 6 months
- Blindness
- Inability, to provide informed consent
-Severe pain when walking
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in the difference of stride length of the non-dominant leg during the last step before and the first step after the medio-lateral perturbation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method