Trial reportArchives of physical medicine and rehabilitation2012
Learning to resist gait-slip falls: long-term retention in community-dwelling older adults.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of Digital Health Interventions on Functional and Psychological Outcomes in Older Patients With Hip Fractures: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Perturbation-based balance training on treadmills for falls prevention in older adults: a review of training protocols and reporting recommendations (ProRePBT).BMC geriatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Influence of Reactive Balance Training Program Characteristics on Reactive Balance Control and Fall Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression.Gerontology · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of exercise interventions on fall prevention in ambulatory community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review with narrative synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Repeated Gait Perturbation Training in Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Predictive and Reactive Locomotor Adaptability in Healthy Elderly: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Pooled it
- Feedback-based perturbation balance training during stationary cycling improves reactive and proactive balance among older adults: a single-blinded randomised controlled trial.Age and ageing · 2025Trial
- Effects of Perturbation-Based Treadmill Training on Balance Performance, Daily Life Gait, and Falls in Older Adults: REACT Randomized Controlled Trial.Physical therapy · 2024Trial
- Effect of Treadmill Perturbation-Based Balance Training on Fall Rates in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Comparison of Lateral Perturbation-Induced Step Training and Hip Muscle Strengthening Exercise on Balance and Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Trial
- Surface Perturbation Training to Prevent Falls in Older Adults: A Highly Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trial.Physical therapy · 2020Trial
- Does severity of motor impairment affect reactive adaptation and fall-risk in chronic stroke survivors?Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Effects of Dynamic Perturbation-Based Training on Balance Control of Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Does perturbation-based balance training prevent falls among individuals with chronic stroke? A randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2018Trial
- Accelerating locomotor savings in learning: compressing four training days to one.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Trial
- Unexpected perturbations training improves balance control and voluntary stepping times in older adults - a double blind randomized control trial.BMC geriatrics · 2016Trial
- Perturbation training can reduce community-dwelling older adults' annual fall risk: a randomized controlled trial.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2014Trial
- Generalization of treadmill-slip training to prevent a fall following a sudden (novel) slip in over-ground walking.Journal of biomechanics · 2013Trial
- Neuromechanistic causes of timber falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: Is response initiation or motor execution the problem?GeroScience · 2026Article
- Optimal Reactive Balance Training Characteristics Poststroke: Secondary Analysis of a Clinical Trial.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine whether the fall-resisting skills acquired from a single perturbation training session can be retained for 6 months or enhanced by an intermediate ancillary session.
designA randomized controlled trial.
settingBiomechanics research laboratory.
participantsCommunity-dwelling elderly (N=48; age, >65 y).
interventionsInitial perturbation training applied to all subjects using low-friction platforms to induce unannounced blocks of repeated right-side slips, interspersed with nonslips. The single-session group retested with only 1 slip 6 months later. The dual-session group received an additional slip at 3 months after the initial session, followed by a retest of slips at 6 months.
main outcome measuresSlip outcome (incidence of falls and balance loss), dynamic stability (based on the center-of-mass position and velocity), and vertical limb support (based on hip height).
resultsSubjects in both groups significantly reduced fall and balance loss incidence from first to last training slips, which resulted from improved stability and limb support control. Both groups demonstrated significant retention in all outcome measures at 6 months compared with the first novel slip, although performance decay was evident in comparison with the last training slip. The ancillary slip at 3 months led to significantly better control of stability and, hence, reduced balance loss outcome, in the dual-session group at 6 months than in the single-session group.
conclusionsMotor memory could be retained for 6 months or longer after a single session of fall-resistance training, although a single "booster" slip could further impede its decay. Through the experience of slipping and falling, it may be possible to "inoculate" older adults against potentially life-threatening falls.
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