NCT04302831

Restoring Central Motor Control Extension

Restoring Central Motor Control to Improve Community Mobility of Older Adults

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Motor skill training therapy aims to improve the brain's control of walking and can improve clinic-based measures of walking in older adults. However, it is unknown whether the benefits of motor skill training extend to real world mobility measures. The investigators will test the effects of motor skill training on measures of community mobility of older adults and assess the mechanisms through improved motor control at the level of the brain. These results will inform intervention approaches to maintain community mobility of older adults and prevent disability and institutionalization.

Conditions

• Gait, Unsteady

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strength training	weight lifting to increase muscle strength
BEHAVIORAL	Endurance training	treadmill walking to increase endurance
BEHAVIORAL	Flexibility training	stretches to improve flexibility
BEHAVIORAL	Physical activity behavioral intervention	Intervention to encourage participants to be more physically active
BEHAVIORAL	Task Specific timing and coordination training	stepping and walking patterns to improve timing and coordination of gait

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-04
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2020-03-10
• Last updated: 2021-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States