NCT04173936

Community-based Tai Chi, Balance, and Fall Risk

Effects of a Community-based Tai Chi Program on Balance, Functional Outcomes, and Sensorimotor Function in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 405 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Asheville · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Aims: Examine the effects of a community Tai Chi program on measures of balance and sensorimotor function. Methods: In a pre-test and post-test design, balance was measured in older adults (N=344; 73.4±7.4 years) with 30-second chair stand, timed-up and go, and 4-stage balance test following a 12-week community-based tai chi intervention. Balance measures and additional sensorimotor measures, including hip abductor electromechanical delay and hip proprioception, were measured in a smaller sample of older adults (n=11; 67.3±3.7 years).

Conditions

• Postural Balance
• Fall
• Proprioceptive Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	tai chi	12-week community-based tai chi program

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-11
• Primary completion: 2017-06-15
• Completion: 2017-06-15
• First posted: 2019-11-22
• Last updated: 2019-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States