Agility Training for Older Adults to Improve Fall Risk Factors (AgilE)

Oliver Faude

Status: Completed

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

Treatments: Behavioral: Agility training; Behavioral: Exercise diary; Behavioral: Exercise recommendations

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05727254

2222-00145

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Agility Training

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise recommendations

Behavioral: Exercise diary

Behavioral: Agility training

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Exercise guidelines and exercise diary.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise recommendations

Behavioral: Exercise diary