Evaluation of the Impact of Non-slip Socks on Motor Recovery in the Elderly

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Acute Care Unit; Aging; Fall Injury
• Interventions: Other: Non-slip socks

• Registration Number: NCT04882696
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vendee

Brief Summary

Some authors suggest a possible clinical interest of anti-slip socks. The scientific literature presents studies with methodological limitations. It is therefore not currently possible to judge the specific interest of anti-slip socks in an elderly hospitalized population.

The investigatorswould therefore like to know the interest of wearing non-slip socks in the management of these patients, and more particularly on the main objective of rehabilitation in geriatric physiotherapy: motor function.

Detailed Description

Some authors suggest a possible clinical interest of anti-slip socks. The scientific literature presents studies with methodological limitations, but above all a different population than the one the investigators are interested in. It is therefore not currently possible to judge the specific interest of anti-slip socks in an elderly hospitalized population.

Evaluating the value of these socks could allow to recommend them with solid data. Preventing this iatrogenic loss of autonomy would have a positive impact on the motor capacities of patients, a quicker and easier return home, and a reduction in health costs.

The investigators would therefore like to know the interest of wearing non-slip socks in the management of these patients, and more particularly on the main objective of rehabilitation in geriatric physiotherapy: motor function.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-04-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-05-06
• Study First Posted: 2021-05-12
• Status Verified: 2022-02
• Study Start: 2022-03-04
• Primary Completion: 2022-03-11
• Study Completion: 2022-03-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-15
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient in Geriatric acute care or Post-Emergency Medicine,
• Patient 75 years and older,
• Patient requiring physiotherapy,
• Patient with a minimum of 7 days of physical therapy
• Patient arrived with unsuitable footwear (assessment at the discretion of the clinician: no back support, unsuitable size, etc.) or without footwear,
• Patient able to walk at least 10 m with or without technical assistance,
• Patient who has given oral consent
• Patient with social security coverage.

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to understand or perform study-specific clinical tests
• Known cognitive impairment, disease or condition that compromises comprehension of information or informed consent by the patient
• Blind patient
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient participating in an interventional clinical research protocol that may alter the assessments of this protocol.
• Patient previously included in the Charm study
• Patient with an identified risk of being unable to wear socks or to walk barefoot within the next 7 days (need for compression stockings or socks, wound, excessive edema, orthostatic hypotension, other)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
specific care with anti-slip socks	Non-slip socks	Patients in this group will wear non-slip socks

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from Baseline walking speed (start of physiotherapy treatment) at D8.	Day 8	Change from Baseline walking speed at the patient's preferred speed over 10m between (start of physiotherapy treatment) at D8.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vende; 🇫🇷 La Roche-sur-Yon, France