Agility Training for Older Adults to Improve Fall Risk Factors

NCT ID: NCT05727254

Last Updated: 2025-04-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 48 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-07-13
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-15

Brief Summary

In this randomized controlled trial the effect of 4 months of multi-component (strength, balance, cognition, endurance) exercise training intervention on measures of neuromuscular performance, cognition, and endurance as well as neural adaptations on a central and peripheral level is investigated. 40 subjects are recruited that are generally health and between 60 and 80 years of age. The interventions is based around exercises, where different tasks have to be solved simultaneously rather than serially, as has previously been done.

Conditions

Age-Related Loss of Skeletal Muscle Mass; Aging; Sarcopenia; Cognitive Decline

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Agility Training

16 weeks, two times per week, 1 hour of multi-component exercise training, exercise guidelines and exercise diary.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Agility training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Multi-component (strength, balance, cognition) exercise training.

Exercise recommendations

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants are being given the standard recommendations how much exercise and what type older adults should do.

Exercise diary

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants are instructed to write down their physical activity and exercises.

Control

Exercise guidelines and exercise diary.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Exercise recommendations

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants are being given the standard recommendations how much exercise and what type older adults should do.

Exercise diary

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants are instructed to write down their physical activity and exercises.

Interventions

Agility training

Multi-component (strength, balance, cognition) exercise training.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Exercise recommendations

Participants are being given the standard recommendations how much exercise and what type older adults should do.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Exercise diary

Participants are instructed to write down their physical activity and exercises.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• willing to be randomized to either arm
• ability to travel to the sports facility twice a week
• understanding the german language

Exclusion Criteria

• smoking, obesity
• history of cardiovascular, pulmonary or chronic inflammatory disease
• vision impairments
• orthopaedic problems preventing them from participating in an exercise program
• history of osteoporosis or recent low trauma fracture
• less than two weeks during the intervention period
• not have taken part in a structured exercise program more than once a week in the past three months

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Oliver Faude

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Oliver Faude

Prof. Dr.

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Departement für Sport, Bewegung und Gesundheit

Basel, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland

Countries

Switzerland

Other Identifiers

2222-00145

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id