The purpose of this study is to determine whether listening to music will demonstrate changes in human postural stability and whether those changes might be useful in fall prevention strategies.

Condition	Intervention
Accidental Falls Healthy	Behavior: Music therapy (listening to specific music)

Further Study Details: 

Primary Outcomes: Pretest and posttest scores will be collected for ten treatment conditions at three post-treatment times (10 minutes, 1 week, and 1 month)
Expected Total Enrollment:  300

Falls are a serious health issue and are the greatest cause of death in the elderly. The use of music therapy in fall prevention has not been reported in the literature. This investigation will provide experimental support to the assumption that music therapy may prevent falls and that certain music can affect increases in postural stability using randomly selected subjects, validated posturography and a full experimental design.

Computer dynamic posturography (CDP) tests will provide stability scores in volunteer subjects who have had no previous history of falls or vertigo. Subjects will be randomized into several different music listening groups and one control group. Examiners will be blinded as to the music listened to and the outcome measurements. Subjects will be blinded as to their posturographic measurements. The music listening groups will be given a daily specific music listening task. CDP tests will be obtained 10 minutes, 1 week and 1 month after subject’s treatment. Music selection will include Mozart, Nolwenn Leroy and others suggested to change human stability.

Ages Eligible for Study:  17 Years   -   90 Years,  Genders Eligible for Study:  Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• No history of previous fall(s) or dizziness

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of previous fall(s) or dizziness

Florida
      Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, Cape Canaveral,  Florida,  32920,  United States

Study chairs or principal investigators

Frederick R Carrick, PhD, FACCN,  Study Director,  Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies   
Elena Ogerro, PhD,  Principal Investigator,  Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies   
Guido Pagnacco, PhD,  Principal Investigator,  Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies   

Study ID Numbers:  CI-01-03
Last Updated:  August 1, 2005
Record first received:  July 21, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:  NCT00121693
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2005-08-02