NCT07195526

Getting Seniors Back on Their Bicycle; a Pretest-posttest Case-control Study on the Improvement of Bicycle Balance Control

Completed NA Last updated 26 September 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Bicycle balance control training in Balance Control in Elderly in 23 participants. Completed in 6 October 2023.

Timeline

31 March 2023

Primary endpoint
6 October 2023

6 October 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	23
Start date	31 March 2023
Primary completion	6 October 2023
Estimated completion	6 October 2023
Sites	1 location across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

• Bicycle balance control training

Conditions studied

• Balance Control in Elderly — all drugs for Balance Control in Elderly →

Sponsor

Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging — full company profile →

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Balance Control in Elderly. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that aims at restoring bicycle balance control skills in seniors that have quit cycling. The intervention will last 11 weeks and involves three components: (1) training on an exercise bicycle, (2) a balance control training on a bicycle simulator, and (3) cycling on the public roads with a safe start-and-stop technique that was practiced on the bicycle simulator. In the bicycle simulator training, the difficulty of the balance control will be increased gradually, slowly approaching the difficulty of bicycle balance control on the public roads.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Getting older adults back on their bicycle; a pretest-posttest case-control study on the improvement of bicycle balance control
   Maris E. · · 2025 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7765021/v1