Multidirectional Yoga for Cognition

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Standard Yoga; Multi-directional Yoga; Educational Control
• Interventions: Other: Standard Yoga; Other: Educational Control; Other: Multi-directional Yoga

• Registration Number: NCT03799640
• Lead Sponsor: University of Miami

Brief Summary

Older individuals, 60-90, will be provided regular or cognitively based yoga training. They will then be evaluated using standard cognitive testing devices.

Detailed Description

Reductions in executive function are common with age. Along with these declines come reductions in simple functional patterns of daily living such as crossing a street, walking in a crowded area, or performing any functions that occurs in an open (changing) environment. This study will use a newly developed yoga program incorporating multi-directional movements, cognitive challenges and visuomotor disturbances to improve executive function and associated movements in persons over 60 years of age.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-12-05
• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-01-08
• Study First Posted: 2019-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2019-08-15
• Study Completion: 2019-08-15
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 2019-09-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• 60-90 years of age
• Capable of walking 50 feet with or without a walking aid-

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Exclusion Criteria

• Regularly participating in yoga or other balance training program
• Currently participating in another exercise study
• Unable to commit to study duration
• Uncontrolled neuromuscular or cardiovascular disease that prevents participation in an exercise study
• Advised not to exercise by their physician

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Educational Control	Standard Yoga	Lectures on Health and Wellness
Standard Yoga	Educational Control	Yoga will be performed using linear forward and backward movements.
Multi-directional Yoga	Educational Control	The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. .
Educational Control	Multi-directional Yoga	Lectures on Health and Wellness
Standard Yoga	Multi-directional Yoga	Yoga will be performed using linear forward and backward movements.
Multi-directional Yoga	Standard Yoga	The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. .

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test	5 minutes	Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen.
NIH Toolbox List Sorting test	5 minutes	Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli.
Walking Executive Function Tests	10 minutes	Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor.
Timed up-and-go	5 minutes	Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair.
NIH Toolbox Flanker test	5 minutes	Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it.
NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test	5 minutes	Measures speed of processing. Participants discern whether two side-by-side pictures are the same or not, with 85 seconds to respond to as many items as possible. Items are simple so as to purely measure processing speed.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Max Orovitz Laboratories; 🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging; 🇺🇸 Coral Gables, Florida, United States