NCT05613374

Gait Training For Reducing Risk Of Fall in the Elderly

Virtual Reality-Based Gait Training For Reducing Risk Of Fall in the Elderly.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Umm Al-Qura University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Falling is considered one of the major problems that may affect the elderly, which may lead to bad consequences. Safe walking needs the older adult to anticipate and respond quickly to external demands and sudden environmental changes.Many studies have shown that treadmill training is effective in improving the elderly person's ability to walk and avoid falls. The C-Mill treadmill is an innovative device that recently used for the training of impaired gait and balance.Therefore, this study will aim to evaluate the efficacy of gait training with a virtual reality treadmill on the risk of fall in the elderly.

Detailed description

Fall injuries produce serious threats to elderly people. Fall hazards are many, they include physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences. Many studies have shown that walking and balance exercises effectively contribute to enhancing walking performance, improving obstacle avoidance, and reducing the incidence of falls in the elderly. Therefore, the practice of complex and challenging situations of the usual daily walking is very important to prevent falls. Many studies have shown that treadmill training is effective in improving the elderly person's ability to walk and avoid falls. The C-Mill treadmill is recently used for the training of impaired gait and balance. C-Mill applies a virtual reality environment, obstacle avoidance games, and a variety of balance challenges in a safe and controlled environment to increase walking adaptability and improve performance in everyday life.Fall injuries produce serious consequences. The management of these injuries is costly and has a negative impact on healthcare entities. Therefore, prevention programs for preventing and reducing falls among the elderly are very important for reducing these serious consequences. Therefore, this study will compare the efficacy of gait training with a virtual reality treadmill and the conventional physical therapy training program on the risk of fall in the elderly.

Conditions

• Fall

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	The C-Mill virtual reality treadmill	The C-Mill treadmill is an innovative device used for the training of impaired gait and balance. The C-Mill is an instrumented treadmill with interactive virtual reality games and applications.The instrument is supplied with a safety frame, body weight support, treadmill force plates, treadmill belt, adjustable handrails, cameras, user operating system, interactive visual screen and augmented reality projection.
OTHER	Conventional Physical Therapy Program	The Conventional Physical Therapy Program include the following: * Postural reactions exercises. (using balance board, balance beam, and manual balance perturbations) * Indoor open environment gait training exercises (over ground gait training exercises.). (using obstacles,cones , stepper, balance board , and uneven surfaces) (either between or outside the parallel bar)

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-15
• Completion: 2023-01-15
• First posted: 2022-11-14
• Last updated: 2023-02-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia