Tai Chi Exercise in Older People

Taipei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fallers Aged 60 Years and Older

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01039779

NHRI-EX102-9805PI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The effects of tai chi exercise and lower-extremity training on improving the primary outcome and secondary outcomes among older people will be compared.

Full description

Does not desire.

Enrollment: 456 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Persons aged 60 years and older and who require medical attention in the emergency rooms due to sustaining a fall.

Exclusion criteria

• A major unstable cardiopulmonary disease
• Cognitive impairment
• Contraindications to physical exercise
• The inability to ambulate
• Frail elderly.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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456 participants in 2 patient groups

Lower-extremity exercise training

Active Comparator group

Description:

This training will be tailored by physical therapists for each participant. A series of exercises will be applied to increase the stability of the trunk muscles and to strengthen the leg muscles.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Tai chi exercise

Active Comparator group

Description:

Yang-style tai chi with 18 movements will be taught every week over the 6-month intervention period at a subject's residence by tai chi instructors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise