NCT05688553

The Effects of Using Flexi-bar for Balance and Strength Training on the Balance and Muscle in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Status unknown NA Last updated 18 January 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Flexi-bar in Flexi-bar in 60 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

7 November 2022

Primary endpoint
31 December 2025

31 December 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	60
Start date	7 November 2022
Primary completion	31 December 2025
Estimated completion	31 December 2025
Sites	1 location across Taiwan

Drugs / interventions tested

• Flexi-bar
• balance and strength training

Conditions studied

• Flexi-bar — all drugs for Flexi-bar →
• Vibration — all drugs for Vibration →
• Balance Training — all drugs for Balance Training →
• Community-dwelling — all drugs for Community-dwelling →

Sponsor

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Who can join

Adults 65 to 85, any sex, with Flexi-bar or Vibration. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Aging of the neuromuscular system may lead to an increased risk of falls in older adults. There are external and internal factors for falls, and lower limb muscle strength and balance are important internal factors for falls in the elderly. And can be improved through exercise. Therefore, an important interventional goal in interventional exercises to prevent falls in the elderly is to promote balance and increase lower extremity muscle strength.

Flexi-bar is a device that provides vibration stimulation. Studies have shown that a 5Hz frequency can be generated when shaken and transmitted to the whole body. Flexi bar is now widely used in fitness centers or rehabilitation therapy to improve muscle strength and balance. Vibration activates the tonic reflex, enhances the excitability of alpha and gamma motor neurons and enhances motor unit synchronization, and this active vibration training helps increase muscle coordination as it induces the tonic reflex and stimulates the proprioception of the joint Feelings, these physiological changes can lead to more effective proprioceptive feedback that improves balance. And because the vibration causes the agonist and antagonist muscles to contract alternately to regulate the instability during the movement. In recreational athletes, the use of a flexi bar in a single-legged position can effectively induce lower extremity muscle activation.

A 12-week combination of balance and strength training in older adults has been shown to be effective in reducing the risk of falls in older adults in previous studies.

Since the effect of adding Flexi bar on the basis of balance and strength training is unknown, the purpose of this study was to investigate the experimental group and the control group with the same exercise posture and training time, Flexi bar + BST Is it better for the balance and muscle strength of the elderly than simple BST?

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.