Assessment of Strength Outcomes After Use of the PrimusRS for Specificity of Training in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Setting

Brandon Hathorn

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Valve Disease, Heart

Treatments: Other: Educational session with Keep Your Move in the Tube and PrimusRS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05924568

015-050

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if performed force measurements yield a different recommended weight lifted during the sternotomy healing process than the traditional gold standard of 5 pounds. A secondary endpoint data obtained will be scores from the pre and post-activity questionnaires.

Full description

In a prospective study involving 130 cardiac rehabilitation patients muscular strength will be measured with a force dynamometer (PRIMUS) on six commonly performed activities. During the first session of cardiac rehabilitation, each subject's date of birth, height, and weight will be recorded. To ensure safety, cardiovascular nurse specialists and exercise physiologists will monitor the patients for hypertension (blood pressure >240/110 mm Hg), arrhythmias, angina, dizziness, pain, shortness of breath, and perceived exertion. The subjects will be asked to complete a pre-activity confidence survey. On the second day of cardiac rehabilitation, a clinical exercise specialist will the PRIMUS equipment to obtain force measurements on the six activities including: rising from a bed, rising from a chair, opening a door, lifting an object from the floor and/or placing an object overhead. Following the performance of the activities, the patients will be asked to complete a post-activity confidence survey.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• CABG through median sternotomy
• Valve repair or replacement through median sternotomy
• Any ethic of socio-economic status

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate
• Sternal dehiscence
• Permanent pacemaker
• Permanent defibrillator
• Unstable angina
• History of heart transplant
• History of hernia
• History of aneurysm
• Physical disability that limits resistance training
• Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic 160 mmHg or diastolic > 100 mmHg)
• Symptomatic dysrhythmias
• History of aortic dissection

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

Median Sternotomy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Educational session with Keep Your Move in the Tube and PrimusRS