Effect of Wearable Hip-Assist Robot on Reduction of Cardiopulmonary Metabolic Efficiency in Healthy Adults

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gait

Treatments: Device: Treadmill walking

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03484624

2018-02-064

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in muscle fatigue and respiratory metabolic energy expenditure during walking with wearable hip-assist robot (V3).

Full description

The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in muscle fatigue and respiratory metabolic energy expenditure during walking with wearable hip-assist robot (V3).

Metabolic energy expenditure and muscle fatigue are measured simultaneously.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elderly adults over age 65
• Those without a history of central nervous system disease

Exclusion criteria

• Those who have problems with walking due to problems such as visual field defects or fractures
• A person whose height is less than 140 cm or not more than 185 cm
• Body mass index BMI (body mass index) based on 35 or more obese
• Those with a cognitive problem that are difficult to understand and participate fully in this study
• Those who are at risk of falling when walking with serious dizziness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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54 participants in 1 patient group

Treadmill walking

Experimental group

Description:

All subjects underwent measurements of muscle fatigue and respiratory metabolism energy during treadmill walking at a comfortable speed for 6 minutes and measured by three conditions (①NoGEMS-free gait, ②Torque off with GEMS, and ③Torque on with GEMS)

Treatment:

Device: Treadmill walking