Effect of Adaptive Training for Balance Recovery

Group A will receive perturbation training on a treadmill with precisely controlled slip-like displacements and then encounter an unannounced novel slip during over-ground walking.

An age-matched control group (Group B) will receive only placebo training (on the same treadmill for the same duration but without perturbation) but encounter an identical novel slip during their over-ground walking.

An age-matched observation-training group (Group C) will watch a training video and slides. When exposed to an identical novel slip in over-ground walking, they will know where and how the slip is going to occur and how to resist a fall.