NCT04626544

Dynamic Neck Function During Gait in Patients With Dizziness

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 110 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Haukeland University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 67 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to explore the possible association between dizziness and head-on trunk-movements and thus, neck movement and if this differs to healthy controls. Additional, the study will examine the reliability and validity of using wearable accelerometers to examine how the head moves relative to the trunk and to collect normative data on head on trunk movement.

Detailed description

Patients with dizziness will be recruited from a ear-nose and throat clinic. After giving written consent the patients will be tested with wearable sensors on their occiput and C6 vertebra during gait. Healthy controls will be recruited from students and employees at the Western Norway University of Applied Science and go through the same protocol as the patients. The investigators will measure the relationship between the two sensors to explore how patients with dizziness move their-on-trunk during gait. The projects main hypothesis is that patient with dizziness have reduced attenuation of gait-associated head oscillations with increased coupling of head-on-trunk motion, compared to healthy controls. The neck does not compensate for trunk movements, causing the head to follow the movement of the trunk.

Conditions

• Dizziness
• Neck Pain
• Gait

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Body-worn inertial sensors	The device typically includes accelerometers that capture body accelerations in three directions (anteroposteriorly, mediolaterally and vertically) and gyrometers that capture rotations (yaw, pitch and roll). The method of measuring gait using body-worn inertial sensors has been found reliable \[15\] and valid \[20\]. This project will use Opal sensors and the Mobility Lab software from the manufacturer APDM (https://www.apdm.com/wearable-sensors/).

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-10
• Primary completion: 2024-06-01
• Completion: 2024-06-01
• First posted: 2020-11-12
• Last updated: 2023-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway