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Is it Possible to Predict Falls With Motor Imagery
Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vendee
Summary
At Departmental Hospital Centre, a primary and secondary screening program for osteoporosis was set up in 2014 in the medical services (excluding oncology), gynaecology, outpatient surgery and orthopaedics. Patients who consulted outpatients in the emergency room were not taken into account due to the 24-hour opening hours. The objective of this program was to identify all patients at risk of osteoporosis; i. e. not only patients with a recent or previous fracture history, but also patients with osteoporosis risk factors without a history of fracture to date. This is in order to propose a prevention strategy to referring physicians and thus reduce the risk of fractures. The handover of the Timed Up and Go designed and physically carried out was added in July 2017 to the management of patients as part of this screening. During this screening, patients are asked to perform 2 realized Timed Up and Go (rTUG), followed by 2 imagined Timed Up and Go (iTUG). The interest in preventing falls in osteoporotic patients leads investigators to propose this evaluation as part of this "osteoporosis" screening. The investigators will offer patients benefiting from osteoporosis screening as part of the process already in place at Departmental Hospital Centre to participate in the FallMi study. If agreement is reached, the patient's treating physician will be contacted to collect data on the occurrence of falls in these patients. After a request by mail, an email will be sent to the attending physicians of each patient at 6 months, then one year after the completion of the TUG. This email will ask physicians about the presence of a fall that has occurred since the TUGs were performed, as well as the severity of this possible fall. Investigators objective is to evaluate rTUG and iTUG as predictive factors of a fall with moderate to fatal consequences. Investigators hypothesize that a lower isochrony between rTUG and iTUG is predictive of a risk of falling.
Official title: Pilot Study to Predict Falls With Motor Imagery
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
50 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
67
Start Date
2019-07-04
Completion Date
2024-12-20
Last Updated
2026-04-27
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Motor Imagery Test
Imagined Timed Up and Go (iTUG) is the imagined version of the actual Timed Up and Go (rTUG) described above). It is possible to calculate the absolute value of the difference between the time of execution of the TUG imagined and actually executed. This difference is called isochrony index. The alteration of this isochrony index is correlated with the decrease in walking speed during the double task. This test is performed during the osteoporosis screening consultation. For patients who agree to participate in the FallMI study, the name and contact information of the attending physician will be collected during the same consultation. Standardised email will be sent to the attending physicians to collect the presence of falls and its consequences. They will be classified as fatal, severe, moderate and inconsequential.
Locations (2)
CHD Vendée
La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Centre Hospitalier Departemental
La Roche-sur-Yon, France