NCT07463924

The Gait Training in Different Directions in Elderly Individuals

The Effects of Gait Training in Different Directions on Balance, Fear of Falling, and Lower Extremity Performance in Elderly Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Walking ability is important because it relates to independence in daily living activities, but this ability gradually decreases with age. Impairments in walking ability cause falls in geriatric individuals. Falls are the most common cause of injury in old age and can even result in death. Daily living activities involve walking in different directions such as walking forward, backward and sideways. In geriatric individuals, walking backward shows more impairment compared to walking forward. No study examining the effect of sideways walking training in geriatric individuals has been found in the literature.

Conditions

• Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	In this intervention, in addition to the standard physiotherapy and rehabilitation program, an 18-minute forward walking exercise was performed.
OTHER	Exercise	In this intervention, in addition to the standard physiotherapy and rehabilitation program, an 18-minute backward walking exercise was performed.
OTHER	Exercise	In this intervention, in addition to the standard physiotherapy and rehabilitation program, an 18-minute sideways walking exercise was performed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-29
• Primary completion: 2024-06-13
• Completion: 2024-06-13
• First posted: 2026-03-11
• Last updated: 2026-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)