A Controlled Trial of Effectiveness of a Backward Walking Program in Patients Recovering From Abdominal Aorta Surgery

Medical University of Silesia

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Abdominal Surgery

Treatments

Procedure: backward walking

Procedure: forward walking

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00819936

B.W 2008/A

Details and patient eligibility

About

Summary Question: Does backward walking offer additional therapeutic value in patients after aortic aneurysm surgery? Participants: The study of backward walking as an addictive physiotherapy procedure was conducted in the group of 65 patients who underwent abdominal aorta surgery. The patients were randomly divided into three subgroups and three various models of physiotherapy were applied. Control group has only routine physiotherapy since therapeutic group I and II have also walking exercises forward in group I and backward in group II respectively.

Enrollment

47 patients

Sex

Male

Ages

65 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm
Age 65-75 years
Male sex
Stable cardiologic status
Absence of neurological disorders
Non-symptomatic aneurysm - non-ruptured
No pain complaints
No motion system impairments

Exclusion criteria

Patients with neurological disorders
Unstable coronary heart disease symptomatic aortic aneurysm - dissecans aneurysm
Having difficulty in locomotion
Having contradiction for starting physical training during the first or second day after surgery
Patients with psychiatric disease
Lack of patient's compliance with physiotherapist; AND
Other medical contraindications