NCT02731261

Chronic Effects of Exercise on Motor Memory Consolidation in Elderly People

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 72 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main purpose of this study was to investigate if a six months period of physical exercise could improve motor memory consolidation in elderly people.

Detailed description

38 subjects of both genders, with a mean age of 71 years old participated in the study. Subjects were divided in two groups: a control group and an experimental group. Before the intervention of a physical exercise program, subjects performed a Finger Tapping Sequence to measure baseline performance. After the intervention, the assessment of the impact of exercise on motor memory consolidation was held in three stages: Training; 1 hour after training and 24 hours after training.

Conditions

• Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Motor memory consolidation	Subjects were divided in two groups: a control group and an experimental group. Before the intervention of a physical exercise program, subjects performed a Finger Tapping Sequence to measure baseline performance. After the intervention, the assessment of the impact of exercise on motor memory consolidation was held in three stages: Training; 1 hour after training and 24 hours after training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2016-04-07
• Last updated: 2016-04-07