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The purposes of this project to examine whether older adults can learn safe landing strategy during a fall. The research hypotheses are three-fold: 1) To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling; 2) To examine whether the training effect on the right side falls can be transferred to the left side falls; and 3) To examine 1-week and 3-month retention effect of fall strategy training in older adults.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Fall Exposure | Active Comparator | An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. |
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| Control | No Intervention | Written instructions will be provided on the correct way to fall without physical practice. | |
| Tuck and Roll Group | Other | An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Tuck and Roll Group | Other | An instructor will explicitly verbally and visually demonstrate the falling technique and provide feedback on participant performance. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Safe Landing Strategy | To determine whether older adults can learn a safe landing strategy to reduce impact severity of falling through a composite outcome from the following measures:
| 1-week and 3-months post |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Retention effects | Examine retention effect of fall strategy training through a composite score from the following:
| 3-months post |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Emily Pike | Contact | 2172447006 | epike@illinois.edu |
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| Fall Exposure | Other | An instructor will implicitly be exposed to the falling technique. Each group will have 4 sessions to physically practice the skills with each practice session lasting about an hour. |
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