Effects of a Program of Physical Exercise and Electrotherapy on Muscle Strength in Subjects of the Fourth Age

Cardenal Herrera University

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Geriatric Assessment; Muscle Strength; Postural Balance; Body Mass Index

Treatments: Other: Electrotherapy+weights; Other: Strong progressive strengthening exercises of lower limbs; Other: No intervention; Other: Electrotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01086592

CEU-UCH-87

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether neuromuscular electrical stimulation, strengthening exercises, or combination of both over lower limbs are effective in the improvement of the stability fundamentally against falls, greater independence and, therefore, better quality of life in elderly over 75 years.

Enrollment: 118 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age above 75

Exclusion criteria

• Mental disorder
• Previous electrotherapy treatments
• Pacemakers
• Lower limbs prosthetics
• Major coronary diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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118 participants in 4 patient groups

Control

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: No intervention

Strengthening exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Strong progressive strengthening exercises of lower limbs.

Treatment:

Other: Strong progressive strengthening exercises of lower limbs

Electrotherapy

Experimental group

Description:

Neuromuscular Electrical Nerve Stimulation

Treatment:

Other: Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy+weights

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Electrotherapy+weights