The Sensorimotor Locus of Balance Control in Elderly Gait

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

14

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 30, 2017

Primary Completion Date

July 25, 2018

Study Completion Date

July 25, 2018

Conditions
Ambulation DifficultyGait, UnsteadyFallPosition Sense Disorders
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Optical flow perturbations

Continuous mediolateral (i.e., side-to-side) 20-minute perturbations of optical flow that elicit the visual perception of lateral imbalance via virtual reality during treadmill walking.

BEHAVIORAL

Normal walking

Usual treadmill walking without optical flow perturbations

Trial Locations (1)

27514

Applied Biomechanics Laboratory, Chapel Hill

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

lead

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OTHER

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