NCT05675631

Effects of Suspension Training in Older Adults

Completed NA Last updated 12 January 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Suspension training in Old Age; Atrophy in 65 participants. Completed in 30 December 2023.

Timeline

2 January 2023

Primary endpoint
30 October 2023

30 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Valencia
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	65
Start date	2 January 2023
Primary completion	30 October 2023
Estimated completion	30 December 2023
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

• Suspension training
• Strength training

Conditions studied

• Old Age; Atrophy — all drugs for Old Age; Atrophy →

Sponsor

University of Valencia

Who can join

Adults 60 to 85, any sex, with Old Age; Atrophy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Traditionally, tools that use unstable surfaces have been used to increase the difficulty of exercises by stimulating the recruitment of a greater number of motor units. A new method is suspension training. It uses the weight of the body and the principles of moments of forces to improve the recruitment of motor units. The difficulty that stimulates this recruitment depends on the amount of instability caused by the suspension apparatus and the position of the body.

So this type of training in the elderly can be very interesting due to the ease of adaptation, since it can be used as a facilitating method or to increase the difficulty.

It seems that suspension training can have positive effects that will have a direct impact on the quality of life of the elderly, due to improvements in different aspects such as gaining strength and improving balance, consequently reducing the risk of falling. . It is a good alternative to gain strength and improve functional mobility and upper trunk strength in the elderly, to other exercises such as elastic bands, since they produce similar effects.

For all these reasons, the program tries to demonstrate that suspension training can be an effective tool to improve the quality of life and reduce the risk of falls in the elderly.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.