NCT03307265

Impact of the Use of a Weighted Jacket on the Balance of Patients With a Balance Disorder.

Impact of the Use of a Weighted Jacket on the Balance (While Walking or Standing) of Patients With a Balance Disorder.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bernard Dachy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to test whether wearing a weighted jacket can help improve the balance distortion of patients with neurologic pathologies. The center of mass of the patient will be analyzed in order to determine the direction in which the imbalance is most important. Weights will be placed accordingly in a jacket in order to correct the imbalance. In the experimental group, weights will represent 1.5 to 2% of the patient body mass. In the control group, the investigators will use weights of 200 grams maximum, placed evenly on both sides of the jacket. Patients will wear the jacket for 2 consecutive hours. After wearing the jacket for 2 hours, data similar to those recorded at the beginning of the experiment will be taken again, namely the determination of the center of mass and of the deviations caused by the imbalance. A final series of tests will take place approximately one week after wearing the jacket, to determine if there are any residual effects.

Conditions

• Balance; Distorted

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Personalized weighted jacket	Patients in this group will wear a jacket with weights (1,5 to 2% of the total body mass) strategically placed in order to correct their imbalance.
DEVICE	Control jacket	Patients in this group will wear a jacket with weights (200 grams maximum) evenly distributed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-12
• Primary completion: 2018-07-27
• Completion: 2018-07-27
• First posted: 2017-10-11
• Last updated: 2018-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium