Clinical trial NCT02102919: Innovative Training Program for Elderly in Need of Care Individuals
Official title: Skilling-up Exercise for Elderly in Need of Care
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Poor Performance Status
Muscle Weakness
Lead sponsor: Bern University of Applied Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Goethe University
name: Maastricht University Medical Center
name: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
First posted: 2014-04-03
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this randomized controlled study was to examine the effects of a 8 weeks innovative training regime (stochastic resonance whole-body vibration \[SR-WBV\] and virtual virtual games \[VG\]) in the skilling up phase on physical performance and strength in elderly in need of care population.

Detailed description: Sensorimotor and strength exercise are methods to increase strength \& power in the field of geriatrics. The question that arise what exercises are best suited to and most effective for elderly in need of care individuals. Such populations are advised first to enter a "skilling up program" before more traditional forms of training exercises are implemented.

Goals in the skilling up phase: improvement in neuromuscular control, postural control and strengthening of large muscle groups of the lower extremity.

The aim of the study in the skilling up phase:

Study the effect on physical performance Study the effects on muscle strength.. The participants will be recruited in Canton Bern - Switzerland and will be randomly allocated to an intervention group or sham group.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* RAI (Resident Assessment Instrument) \>0
* live in canton Bern
* in terms of training load be resistant.

Exclusion Criteria:

* acut joint disease, acut thrombosis, acute fractures, acute infections, acute tissue damage, or acute
* surgical scars
* seniors with prosthesis.
* alcoholic
* acute joint disease, activated osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, acute lower limb
* acute inflammation or infection tumors
* fresh surgical wounds
* severe migraine
* epilepsy acute severe pain

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical performance
timeFrame: after 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Isometric maximum voluntary contraction (IMVC)
timeFrame: after 8 weeks
measure: Submaximal maximum voluntary contraction (subIMVC)
timeFrame: after 8 weeks
measure: Isometric rate of force development (IRFD)
timeFrame: after 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bern
country: Switzerland
facility: Slavko Rogan
Study officials:
affiliation: BUAS
name: Heiner Baur, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Bern University of Applied Science, Department WGS
name: Lorenz Radlinger, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
name: Eling Douwe de Bruin, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Maastricht University Medical Center
name: Rob de Bie, Prof.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Goethe University
name: Dietmar Schmidtbleicher, Prof
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Rogan S, Radlinger L, Baur H, Schmidtbleicher D, de Bie RA, de Bruin ED. Sensory-motor training targeting motor dysfunction and muscle weakness in long-term care elderly combined with motivational strategies: a single blind randomized controlled study. Eur Rev Aging Phys Act. 2016 May 28;13:4. doi: 10.1186/s11556-016-0164-0. eCollection 2016.