Effect Of Functional Balance Exercise İn Elderly

Tarsus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Older People; Exercise

Treatments: Other: Functional reaction balance training; Other: Functional balance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06383676

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The elderly population is increasing in Turkey and in the world. Many health problems, such as a decrease in physical and psychological abilities and an increase in chronic problems, occur with aging. It is important to encourage and support practices for the development of exercises to increase physical and cognitive capacity in order to early recognize and reduce the effects of problems that develop with aging. To the best of our knowledge, there is no exercise training to increase reaction time in the elderly in the literature.

Full description

The study was planned as a randomized controlled study. Volunteer participants over the age of 65 living in a nursing home in Ankara will be included in the study. The sample of the study will consist of 28 elderly individuals, as determined by power analysis. The participants will be randomly divided into two groups. One group (Group 1) will receive functional balance exercise training, and the other group (Group 2) will receive functional balance-based reaction exercise training. The participants socio-demographic information, cognitive level ( The Montreal Cognitive Assessment), executive function (Stroop Test), reaction time, physical performance (Four Step Square test, Short Physical Performance Battery, Time Up Go Test) and balance confidence (Falls Efficiency Scale) will be evaluated Evaluations will be repeated at baseline and 8 weeks later. The interventions will be carried out two days a week for 40 minutes for eight weeks.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age of 65 or above
• Minimum of 5 years of education
• Moca score of 21 or higher
• Capability to walk a minimum of 10 meters (with or without walking assistance if needed)

Exclusion criteria

• Moca test score 21 and below
• Having vision and hearing problems (which cannot be corrected with glasses or hearing aids)
• Having an orthopedic or neurological disease that prevents standing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Functional balance based reaction exercise training.

Experimental group

Description:

Functional balance-based balance reaction exercises will be integrated into functional balance exercises with the help of the BlazePod™ training device panel.

Treatment:

Other: Functional reaction balance training

Functional balance training

Experimental group

Description:

The exercises will consist of functional balance activities, such as maintaining a standing posture, transitioning from sitting to standing, walking and balancing on one leg.

Treatment:

Other: Functional balance training