NCT04019132

Power During Functional Tasks in Older Adults

Power During Functional Tasks in Older Adults: Reliability, Reference Values and Relationship With Other Outcome Measurements Related to Sarcopenia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 284 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary aim of this study is to optimize the methodology to measure lower limb power in older adults, so that clinicians are able to detect functional problems in this population earlier.

Detailed description

Aging is associated with slower movement patterns, a higher fall risk and a restriction in functionality. This will lead to an increase in the number of dependent elderly and a high socio-economic burden. From the age of 40, a systematic loss of muscle mass and muscle force, also known as sarcopenia, will occur. In addition, performing daily tasks requires the production of muscle force at a certain speed. The product of force and speed, power, decreases even earlier and faster than muscle force. This power is typically measured with specialized equipment, which limits the large-scale applicability. With the help of accelerometry there is the possibility to measure power during more functional tasks and movements, which benefits the applicability, but the reliability, reference values and link with other outcome measurements related to sarcopenia has to be investigated.

Conditions

• Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Muscle function test	Body measurements, power and strength tests of the knee extensor muscle, handgrip strength, functional capacity tests, objective measurement of physical activity (subgroup of older adults, n=50)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-20
• Primary completion: 2022-03-01
• Completion: 2022-03-01
• First posted: 2019-07-15
• Last updated: 2022-05-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium