6MWT With and Without Walker

N/ACompletedNCT03627273

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain86 enrolled

Overview

Elderly subjects repeated 6MWT with or without walker

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Healthy Elderly

Interventions

6 minutes walking test with walkerDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

to walk during 6 minutes with walker

6 minutes walking testDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

to walk during 6 minutes with walker

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * clinically stable * aged over 65 years * could walk * did not use walker frames in routine Exclusion Criteria: * criteria outlined in the European respiratory society/American thoracic society technical standard related to 6MWT * impaired cognitive function

Locations (1)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

Brussels, Belgium

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

six minutes walking test

distance

Time frame: six minutes

Secondary Outcomes

Modified Borg scale

dyspnea

Time frame: six minutes

heart rate

heart beat rate

Time frame: six minutes

pulsed oxygen saturation

saturation pulsed oxygen

Time frame: six minutes

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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