Brain training on your computer may cut fall risk in seniors
NCT ID NCT05022589
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested a computer-based cognitive training program designed to improve balance and reduce fall risk in older adults. 32 participants aged 65 and older who had fallen in the past year or had trouble walking used the program for up to 50 sessions. The goal was to see if the program was easy to use and if it could help with fall prevention.
What this could mean
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- Active substance
- computerized cognitive-training program
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a non-drug, home-based option to help older adults improve balance and reduce falls.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed feasibility study with only 32 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention is not a treatment for any disease.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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32 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2022
- Finished
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Apr 2024
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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65 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Participants who are 65 years of age or older. 2. Participants must be US residents. 3. Participant with at least one self-reported fall within the last 1 year or difficulty walking one half a mile or difficulty climbing one flight of stairs. 4. Participants who are fluent English speakers from the age of 12, per self-report, to ensure reasonable neuropsychological results on key assessments. 5. Participant must have adequate sensorimotor capacity to perform the program, including visual capacity adequate to read from a computer screen at a normal viewing distance, auditory capacity adequate to understand normal speech, and motor capacity adequate to control a computer mouse or a tablet. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Participants had joint replacement surgery or significant join/leg injury less than one year prior to the screening visit. 2. Participants have a joint replacement surgery scheduled within the next 6 months. 3. Participants use a walker or wheelchair on a regular basis. 4. Participants have a diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), labyrinthitis or suffers migraines that result in chronic vertigo. 5. Participants self-reports vision or hearing difficulties that would interfere with the ability to complete the study tasks. 6. Participants with untreated psychiatric conditions, including substance abuse/dependence disorders, recent hospitalization, ongoing chemotherapy or other cancer treatment. 7. Participants with medical illnesses, injuries or conditions predisposing to imminent functional and/or cognitive decline (e.g. multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, dementia, etc.) 8. Participants enrolled in a concurrent clinical trial involving an intervention targeting physical functioning to prevent falls; investigational pharmaceutical; nutraceutical; medical device; or behavioral treatment that could affect the outcome of this study. However, participation in standard treatments (e.g., occupational therapy) or use of prescribed medications (e.g., anti-depressants) is allowable. 9. Participants using computer-based cognitive training programs or has used it within a month of the consent date. 10. Participants who answered 'yes' to questions 4 (Active Suicidal Ideation with Intent) or 5 (Active Suicidal Ideation with Specific Plan and Intent) on the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) or 'yes' to any of the suicide-related behaviors (actual attempt, interrupted attempt, aborted attempt, preparatory act or behavior) on the C-SSRS "Suicidal Behavior" if the ideation or behavior occurred within 2 months from Participant's date of consent.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Posit Science Corporation
San Francisco, California, 94111, United States
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