Reducing Metabolic Cost of Walking by Exploiting Arm Swing to Drive Leg Swing
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 30
- 主要终点
- Metabolic Cost
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 36 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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
排除标准
- •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?")
研究组 & 干预措施
Single Group Experimental
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.
干预措施: Arm Swing Driven Assistive Apparatus (Device)
结局指标
主要结局
Metabolic Cost
时间窗: 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
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Christopher Arellano
Assistant Professor
University of Houston