Assessing and Improving Balance Using Platform Perturbations
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified September 2010 by Kessler Foundation.
Recruitment status was Active, not recruiting
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First received: September 21, 2010
Last updated: NA
Last verified: September 2010
History: No changes posted
The purpose of this study is to compare current standing balance assessment methods to a new method that measures weight shift during small movements of a sliding platform. It will also be used to determine if balance improves with repeated exposure as part of a 4-week training program.
||Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
||Assessing and Improving Balance Using Platform Perturbations
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Improvement in static sway [ Time Frame: 20 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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| Estimated Primary Completion Date:
||August 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
||20 Years to 65 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Healthy no balance deficits age 20-35 or 50-65
- moderate to severe arthritis
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01207362
|Kessler Foundation Research Center
|W. Orange, New Jersey, United States, 07052 |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on February 27, 2015
||Kevin Terry, PI, Kessler Foundation Research Center
History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
||September 21, 2010
||September 21, 2010
||United States: Institutional Review Board