NCT03994770Completed
An Engineering-Based Balance Assessment and Training Platform
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a proposal to develop a Balanced Reach Training Protocol (BRTP) to evaluate and train dynamic standing balance. The BRTP is based upon the Balanced Reach Test (BRT) that the investigators previously developed and validated. In the BRT subjects stand and point to a target disk moving unpredictably across a large projection screen in front of them without stepping. Body movements undertaken to track the disk are integral to many daily activities and represent an important class of "expected" balance disturbances that can precipitate falls. The BRTP employs engineering and psychophysical methods, and exploits advances in real time computing in a novel and innovative way to more effectively evaluate and train balance function. The BRTP presents a challenging reaching/tracking task that subjects perform at their limit of balance. The BRTP is an objective, quantitative test that can evaluate balance function without floor or ceiling effects, and train balance across the spectrum of aging, disease, and injury.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 7 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Jun 2019
- Start date
- 15 Nov 2021
- Primary completion date
- 12 Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03994770
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 7
- From 15 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 12 Dec 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Excessive daily alcohol consumption (\>3 oz. liquor; \>12 oz. wine; or \>36 oz. beer) or illicit drug abuse
Other illness
- Clinical history of:
- Any health condition that the study team deems would preclude safe completion of the BATP
- Neurological disease other than stroke, such as Parkinson's disease. Vestibular disorders sufficient to preclude safe completion of the BATP or MMBI
- Poorly controlled hypertension (\>190/105) on at least two separate occasions
- Recent hospitalization for severe disease or surgery (\<3 months)
- Congestive heart failure or valvular dysfunction symptomatic with ordinary activities (NYHA II)
Lab values
- Poorly controlled type 1 or 2 diabetes (HbA1c \>10)
Age
- For ages 18-40-History of a stroke, orthopedic deficits, or sensorimotor deficits
- For ages 60 and older-Dementia based on Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) score of less than 23 for more than 9th grade education.
Other
- Body Mass Index (BMI) \>40
- Self-reported Pregnancy
- Symptomatic orthostatic hypotension
Who the study is looking for
- 18-40 years old and in good health; 60 years and older
- For Ages 60 or older-stroke with persistent motor function deficit.
- For ages 18-40-experienced no falls in the past year. Fall is defined as a fall that occurs under conditions that an able body individual would not fall.
- Able to perform the balanced reach task without assistive devices for 90 seconds
- Able to perform a sit-to-stand with minimal assistance and walk 10 meters without human assistance
- Adequate language and neurocognitive function to give adequate informed consent \& to participate in testing and training
- Vision adequate to see a 1 inch diameter black disk against a white background at 3 feet
- Able to tolerate the use of Virtual Reality eyewear for \~10 minutes
Age in the registry: 60 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
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