Normative Biomechanical Measures of Reaching in Able-Bodied Adults

Mayo Clinic

Status

Completed

Conditions

Individuals With Functional Limitations Which May Impact Their Forward Reach

Treatments

Other: Modified Functional Reach and Functional Reach

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05328947

22-000958

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study to obtain normative values and repeatability measures during functional reaching tasks in able-bodied individuals with no functional limitations.

Full description

The study has three main aims: 1) Define the data collection methods, and calculate the repeatability, of joint angles, muscle activation magnitudes, seating pressure, foot pressure, and reach distance during seated and standing reaching activities. 2) Collect normative values of joint angles, muscle activation magnitudes, seating pressure, foot pressure, and reach distance during seated and standing functional reaching tasks in 40 participants with no functional limitations. Descriptive statistics will include calculating the mean, median, standard deviation, and range of the outcome variable values. 3) Compare joint angles, muscle activation magnitudes, seating pressure, foot pressure, and reach distance collected during a seated reaching task to those collected during a standing reaching task.

The data collected may be used in the future as baseline reference and repeatability values of outcome measures against which to compare values from individuals with functional limitations to quantify their functional ability.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 59 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 20-59 years of age at time of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

Failure to give consent or follow simple commands
Score of 7 or above on the QuickDASH Outcome Measure
Score of 5 or above on the Oswestry Low Back Disability Questionnaire
Score of 76 or below on the Lower Extremity Functional Scale
Diagnosis of a neuromuscular disorder (e.g., muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia)
Diagnosis of an inner ear balance disorder (e.g., benign paroxysmal positional vertigo)
Insufficient active range of motion of bilateral shoulders or hips that results in inability to perform forward or lateral reaching tasks
Any illness or condition which, based on the research team's assessment, will compromise the patient's ability to comply with the protocol, patient safety, or the validity of the data collected during this study