NCT03540082

Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purposes of this project to examine whether older adults can learn safe landing strategy during a fall. The research hypotheses are three-fold: 1) To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling; 2) To examine whether the training effect on the right side falls can be transferred to the left side falls; and 3) To examine 1-week and 3-month retention effect of fall strategy training in older adults.

Conditions

• Fall Prevention
• Fall Injury
• Fall Safety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Tuck and Roll Group	An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.
OTHER	Fall Exposure	An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-19
• Primary completion: 2021-12-01
• Completion: 2021-12-01
• First posted: 2018-05-30
• Last updated: 2019-05-14