Recruiting

Fall Risk Reduction

Sponsor:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Code:

NCT02314585

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 64

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Exercise

Education

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study looks to see the effects of a home based exercise program on falls in people with MS.

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Study ID

NCT02314585

Start date

Dec, 2014

Status verified date

Aug, 2015

Completion date

Jan, 2018

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan, 2018

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 64

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • The inclusion criteria involve having an established definite diagnosis of MS
  • Ability to walk 25 feet with or without aid
  • Relapse free in the last 30 days
  • Being ≥ 50 years of age
  • Having fallen at least once in the past year
  • Physician approval to engage in light physical activity
  • Willingness and ability to attend the training sessions and testing sessions.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • We will exclude all individuals with risk factors contra-indicative for undertaking strenuous exercise.
  • During the initial phone contact with the project coordinator, participants will verbally respond to a health history questionnaire.
  • Those individuals who are asymptomatic and meet no more than one risk factor threshold including family history of coronary heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and sedentary lifestyle will be considered at low risk and included for participation.

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

other: Education

In the second phase, participants will partake in an instructional class relating to gait, balance, and falls.

other: Exercise

In the second phase,participants will partake in an exercise course relating to gait, balance, and falls.

Interventions

Exercise

Participants will partake in three, six month phases. In the second phase, either an education or exercise program will be implemented. Assessments will follow each phase with the addition of an initial assessment for baseline data.

Education

Participants will partake in three, six month phases. In the second phase, either an education or exercise program will be implemented. Assessments will follow each phase with the addition of an initial assessment for baseline data.

Primary outcome measure

  • Chagne in Fall Risk [ Time Frame: 1 year ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jen Wajda, BS

217-300-1696jwajda@illinois.edu

Locations

Motor control research lab

Recruiting

Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801

Contacts

Jen Wajda, BS

217-330-1696jwajda@illinois.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Last update posted

Aug 26, 2015

Last verified

Aug, 2015

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on 2015-08-26.