Aerobic Exercise in Early Subacute Stroke

Klas Sandberg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Aerobic exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02107768

2010/396-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of early intensive aerobic exercise regarding aerobic capacity, gait and balance, Health Related Quality of Life and participation.

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ability to understand Swedish language.
• Ability to walk 5 meters with or without the support of any means or person.
• Be able to get up on a cycle ergometer and cycle in their own chosen pace.
• Approval of medically responsible physician to conduct physical training in groups.

Exclusion criteria

• Medical or neurological diseases that may affect the exercise execution.
• Patients for whom transportation to and from hospital can not be arranged during intervention period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

56 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise recommendation

Experimental group

Description:

Patients randomized to the control group receive general advice for physical training and activity but no specific training or other rehabilitation efforts

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercise

Aerobic exercise

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will conduct a 12 week training period with two training sessions of 60 minutes per week at a local hospital. The start shall be made within 6 weeks after stroke . The training shall be conducted in a group with a maximum of 10 participants and start running as new participants in the intervention group will be added. The intensity during the exercise program should be individualized and based on the initial tests . Patients should be advised to reach a degree of exertion 13-15/20, Rate of Perceived Exertion (Borg 's RPE scale) Two fitness goals was to be achieved during the training session: 1. An individual training level corresponded to 50% or more of maximal oxygen uptake for at least 40 min ( Borg 9-11/20 ) . Which corresponds to 70 % of maximum heart rate. 2:nd 80% or more of the estimated maximum oxygen uptake during two periods of 8 minutes( Borg 13-15/20 ) .Which corresponds to 85% of maximum heart rate.

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercise