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

NCT ID: NCT07195526

Last Updated: 2025-09-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 23 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2023-10-06

Brief 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

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Bicycle balance control training

The intervention involveds 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 will be practiced on the bicycle simulator. In the bicycle simulator training, the difficulty of the balance control was increased gradually, slowly approaching the difficulty of bicycle balance control on the public roads.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Bicycle balance control training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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.

Control group

The participants in the experimental group are matched to the participants in the control group. The control group participants are selected based on their distance from the location of the intervention; control group participants live farther away from the location of the intervention as compared to the experimental group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Persons that stopped cycling at least six months ago and want to get back on their bicycle.

Exclusion Criteria

• Balance-relevant sensory disorders (peripheral neuropathy, labyrinthitis, vestibular neuritis, …)

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Eric Maris

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Eric Maris, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Locations

Faculty of Social Sciences Research labs and Radboud University Sports Center

Nijmegen, , Netherlands

Countries

Netherlands

Provided Documents

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

DCC.2024.00080

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id