Biofeedback Gait Retraining to Reduce Lower Extremity Impact in Obese Children

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

37

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 31, 2016

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2017

Study Completion Date

October 31, 2017

Conditions
Childhood Obesity
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Biofeedback gait retraining

Each session will include a continuous exercise in which the patient will do walking, walking pace and running (3 minutes each section). During the meeting, participant will receive biofeedback that will displayed on a computer screen that shows the forces that develop in the knee joint so that the patient can see graphically the forces that develop around the knee joint and will be guided / try to reduce the values of the graph by changing the intensity of his landing on the tracks. In all training the time that the biofeedback is shown will be reduced.

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Each session will include a continuous exercise in which the patient will do walking, walking pace and running (3 minutes each section).

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

"the sports and health center for children and youth at Meir medical center", Kfar Saba

Sponsors
All Listed Sponsors
lead

Meir Medical Center

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