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Aging and Task-Specific Training to Reduce Falls
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University of Illinois at Chicago · 2026
Abstract
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of a novel task-specific balance training for reducing environmental falls in community ambulatory older adults who are at-risk of falling. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Does task-specific balance training improve the ability to prevent falling when unexpected perturbations such as slips and trips occur, and/or improve balance control during self-initiated movements?
* Does task-specific balance training reduce real-life falls for 18 months after training?
Researchers will compare task-specific balance training with conventional balance training and treadmill perturbation-based training to examine how this novel intervention compares to established interventions for improving balance.
Participants who participate in the study will be asked to do the following:
* Complete a pre-training assessment of their balance control, and then be randomized to one of three training groups: 1) task-specific balance training, 2) treadmill perturbation-based training, and 3) conventional balance training
* Complete their assigned training protocol for 8 weeks (2x per week for a total of 16 sessions)
* Complete 2 post-training assessments of their balance control, the first being completed immediately after the training is completed, and the second being completed 18 months after the training is completed
* Wear a physical activity monitor for 18 months after completing the intervention to monitor their real life falls.
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Anonymous. (2026). Aging and Task-Specific Training to Reduce Falls. <em>University of Illinois at Chicago</em>. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07094659
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Anonymous. Aging and Task-Specific Training to Reduce Falls. University of Illinois at Chicago. 2026.
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@misc{anon2026Aginga,
title = {Aging and Task-Specific Training to Reduce Falls},
author = {Anonymous},
journal = {University of Illinois at Chicago},
year = {2026},
}
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