NCT07195526

Getting Seniors Back on Their Bicycle; a Pretest-posttest Case-control Study on the Improvement of Bicycle Balance Control

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that aims at restoring bicycle balance control skills in seniors that have quit cycling. The intervention will last 11 weeks and involves three components: (1) training on an exercise bicycle, (2) a balance control training on a bicycle simulator, and (3) cycling on the public roads with a safe start-and-stop technique that was practiced on the bicycle simulator. In the bicycle simulator training, the difficulty of the balance control will be increased gradually, slowly approaching the difficulty of bicycle balance control on the public roads.

Conditions

• Balance Control in Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Bicycle balance control training	The intervention involves three components: (1) training on an exercise bicycle, (2) a balance control training on a bicycle simulator, and (3) cycling on the public roads with a safe start-and-stop technique that was practiced on the bicycle simulator. In the bicycle simulator training, the difficulty of the balance control will be increased gradually, slowly approaching the difficulty of bicycle balance control on the public roads.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-31
• Primary completion: 2023-10-06
• Completion: 2023-10-06
• First posted: 2025-09-26
• Last updated: 2025-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands