The Effect of Power Posing on Timed Up and Go Test Score

Youngstown State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Other: low-power; Other: high-power

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03032393

071-2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study determines the effects of posture on time up and go test. Half of the subjects will assume a high-power posture, while the other half will assume a low-power posture.

Full description

Subjects in the experimental group were instructed to stand with hands on their hips, elbows pointing out and feet approximately one foot apart for 20 seconds. Subjects in the control group were instructed to stand with hands and arms wrapping around the torso and feet together for 20 seconds. Timed Up and Go test was administered using an OmniVR™ Virtual Rehabilitation System before and after the postural intervention

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• male or female, age 18 to 65, with all 4 extremities intact, and ability to stand still for 20 seconds.

Exclusion criteria

• unable to stand with their feet together or one foot apart for at least 20 seconds, unable to wrap their arms around their torso or keep their hands on their hips for 20 seconds, unable to perform sit to stand transfer and ambulation independently, and cognitive impairments that interfere with the experimental procedures.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Dominant

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in the experimental group were instructed to stand with hands on their hips, elbows pointing out and feet approximately one foot apart for 20 seconds.

Treatment:

Other: high-power

Submissive

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in the control group were instructed to stand with hands and arms wrapping around the torso and feet together for 20 seconds.

Treatment:

Other: low-power