NCT02731274

Physical Activity and Motor Memory in Pedal Dexterity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 73 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 on pedal dexterity

Detailed description

34 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 one. Before the intervention of physical exercise program, subjects performed a Tapping Pedal Test 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	Regular physical activity in Motor memory consolidation	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. For the analysis of the results, descriptive and inferential statistics were used.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2016-04-07
• Last updated: 2016-04-07