Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purposes of this project to examine whether older adults can learn safe landing strategy during a fall. The research hypotheses are three-fold: 1) To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling; 2) To examine whether the training effect on the right side falls can be transferred to the left side falls; and 3) To examine 1-week and 3-month retention effect of fall strategy training in older adults.

Official Title
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Safe Landing Strategy in Older Adults

Conditions
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Fall Prevention, Fall Injury, Fall Safety

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Tuck and Roll Group
* Other: Fall Exposure


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: BMI 18.5-30 kg/m2 Healthy bone mass (2.5 SD of young) No tumbling experience Exclusion Criteria: > 70 years old Bone fracture within 3 years Osteoporosis Blood thinners

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 60 Years
Maximum Age: 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Fall Exposure<br>An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. | Other: Fall Exposure<br>* An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.<br>|
| No Intervention: Control<br>Written instructions will be provided on the correct way to fall without physical practice. | |
| Other: Tuck and Roll Group<br>An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. | Other: Tuck and Roll Group<br>* An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Safe Landing Strategy | To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling through a composite outcome from the following measures: Forceplate measurements (CueFors2, Motek Medical) Motion capture (VICON, Oxford Metrics) Inertial sensor (BioStampRC, MC10) Short-term skill acquisition (Aim 1) will be quantified as change in hip impact force between baseline and post assessments on visit 4 | 1-week and 3-months post | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retention effects | Examine retention effect of fall strategy training through a composite score from the following: Participant questionnaire Track and review which participants attend all four study visits | 3-months post | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Aging, Older Adults, Fall prevention, Fall safety, Safe landing