Virtual Tai ji Quan Exercise to Prevent Falls in Older Adults

Conditions

• Accidental Fall

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

65 Years - 90 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Virtual tai ji quan: moving for better balance intervention (V-TJQMBB) — BEHAVIORAL
  This intervention involves a tai ji quan exercise program, named tai ji quan: moving for better balance
• Virtual multimodal exercise intervention (V-Multimodal) — BEHAVIORAL
  This intervention involves a multimodal exercise program that consists of balance, strength, light walking, and stretching exercises

Study Details

To examine two different exercise programs in reducing incidence of falls among community-dwelling older adults

Key Dates

Start date

Sep 29, 2023

Status verified

Jan 2026

Primary completion

Mar 30, 2029

Completion

Mar 31, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment

620 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Active Comparator: Virtual tai ji quan
  Participants participating are intervened with practice and drills of tai ji quan forms and associated movements. Training focuses on lower-extremity strength, postural control, and mobility, with an emphasis on weight bearing and weight shifting, extending and controlling the body's center of mass over its base of support; self-induced movement perturbation; gait preparation, initiation, locomotion, and termination; and sensory integration. The exercise training also emphasizes connecting tai ji quan forms to transitional movements that are associated with performing daily activities. Each session includes brief movement-based warm-ups and light breathing cool-down exercises.
• Active Comparator: Virtual multimodal exercise
  Participants participating are intervened with a multicomponent exercise program that involves light walking, strength, postural control, and flexibility exercises. Walking exercises include amble forward and backward walk, long strides, heel-toe walking, narrow- and wide-base walking, and sidestepping. Strength training includes single- and multi-joint exercises such as semi-squats, lunging forward and sideways, and toe stands that involve exercising ankle dorsiflexors, knee extensors, and hip abductors. Balance training involves semi-tandem foot-standing, heel-toe and line walking, single-leg standing, alternation of the base of support, weight transfers, toe and heel movements, and various reaching and stretching movements away from the center of the base of support. Flexibility exercises include a static stretching routine of major upper and lower body muscle groups. Each session includes brief movement-based warm-ups and light breathing cool-down exercises.

Primary Outcome Measure

Self-reported number of falls [ Time Frame: Monthly, baseline to 6 months ]

Central Contacts

• Fuzhong Li, Ph.D.
  541-484-2123
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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