NCT03493373

Effect of Nervous System Mobilization on Older Adults' Postural Control

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aveiro University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of nervous system mobilization and exercise with exercise only on institutionalized older adults' postural control.

Detailed description

It is anticipated that 26 institutionalized older adults will be randomly allocated to receive either exercise and neural mobilization (n=13) or exercise only (n=13). Data on pain intensity (a vertical numeric rating scale) and location (body chart), depression (Geriatric Depression Scale), balance, hand grip strength, timed up and go and gait velocity will be collected at baseline, end of treatment and at 3 months follow up. Statistical analysis will be performed using a mixed-methods ANOVA.

Conditions

• Older Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	The exercise program will consist of: 1) warm up - consisting of stretches of large muscle groups of the upper limbs, lower limbs and trunk and by general mobility exercises; 2) strength training of moderate intensity; 3) balance training; 4) Cooling - will consist of performing overall stretching combined with deep breathing.
OTHER	Neural mobilization	Neural gliding mobilization will target mainly the lower limb nerves and will be performed in series of 10 repetitions with 1 minute interval between series.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-15
• Primary completion: 2018-12-15
• Completion: 2018-12-21
• First posted: 2018-04-10
• Last updated: 2019-03-26

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Portugal