The Effect of a Wearable Hip Assist Robot on Cardiopulmonary Metabolic Efficiency During Stair Ascent in Elderly Adults

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Completed

• Conditions: Health Behavior; Gait, Unsteady
• Interventions: Device: Wearable hip assist robot

• Registration Number: NCT03389165
• Lead Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center

Brief Summary

The aim of this study was to identify the assistance effect of the new wearable hip assist robot, gait enhancing mechatronic system (GEMS) developed by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., Korea) during stair ascent by comparing the energy expenditure of elderly adults with and without the GEMS.

Detailed Description

Primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the effect of a wearable hip assist robot on cardiopulmonary metabolic efficiency during stair ascent in elderly adults.

Fifteen elderly adults participated in this study. The stair ascent trials were designed to climb stairs from the first basement level to the fourth floor of the Proton Therapy Center, Samsung Medical Center, Korea. The metabolic energy expenditure was measured using a portable cardiopulmonary metabolic system (Cosmed K4b², Rome, Italy) while participants performed randomly assigned two different conditions consecutively:, free ascent without the GEMS (NoGEMS) or robot-assisted ascent with the GEMS (GEMS). Participants rested for 10 minutes between the two trial conditions.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-10-16
• Primary Completion: 2017-11-10
• Study Completion: 2017-11-10
• Status Verified: 2017-12
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-12-26
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-03
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 15

Inclusion Criteria

• Elderly adults who absence of a history of musculoskeletal or central nervous system diseases
• High levels of physical performance (SPPB > 8)

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Exclusion Criteria

• Elderly adults who absence of the ability to walk independently due to visual field defects, fractures, or severe muscle weakness
• Severe dizziness that might lead to falls
• Cognitive disorders that might be difficult to understand accurately in this study

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Elderly adults	Wearable hip assist robot	Stair climbing with and without a wearable hip assist robot

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change on metabolic energy expenditure in GEMS condition compared with NoGEMS condition	1 hour	All participants stood in a comfortable position for 5 minutes to obtain baseline variables before stair ascent. Participants were then asked to climb stairs from the first basement level to the fourth floor of the Proton Therapy Center, Samsung Medical Center, Korea, in a step-over-step manner under two different conditions, GEMS and NoGEMS. The GEMS and NoGEMS conditions were conducted in a random order, and just before the second condition, participants stood for 2～3 minutes to obtain baseline variables once more.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Samsung Medical Center; 🇰🇷 Seoul, Korea, Republic of