Effect of gravity compensation and resistance on muscle activation patterns and kinematics in healthy elderly.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON24591

Enrollment

Registered

2009-03-12

Start date

2009-03-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

stroke, CVA, kinematics, muscle, elderly, resistance, dampening beroerte, ouderen, kinematice, spier, weerstand

Interventions

This study has a cross-sectional design. The experiment will take one measurement session of approximately one hour. In this session several movement tasks are executed with repeated arm movements. Th

2. With gravity compensation and resistance

3. Without gravity compensation without resistance

4. Without gravity compensation with resistance. The gravity compensation is applied to both elbow and shoulder, whereas the resistance is only applied on the elbow joint. The circular movements are

2. With gravity compensation and without resistance

3. Without gravity compensation and with resistance. The resistance is applied on both shoulder and elbow joint.

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Age of 45-80 years.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Shoulder pain; 2. Neurological, orthopaedic or rheumatological disease of right upper extremity.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Muscle activation patterns (EMG) and kinematics of the shoulder and elbow during mvoement execution of different tasks.	—

Contacts

Public ContactB.I. Molier

b.molier@rrd.nl+31 (0)53 487 5741

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)