Feasibility of At-Home Chair-Based Resistance Band Training to Improve Balance, Strength, and Bone Density in Older Adults (ChaREx)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Sarcopenic Obesity

Treatments: Device: THERABand resistance exercise bands

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06671847

HSC-MS-24-0485

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of implementing a 24-week at-home chair-based resistance band training intervention, to determine effectiveness of a the a 24-week at-home chair-based resistance band training intervention in improving body composition and to determine the effectiveness of a 24-week at-home chair-based resistance band training intervention in improving physical performance in adults 50 years and older, receiving care at the UT Physicians Center for Healthy Aging.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking
• receive care at the UT Physician Center for Healthy Aging

Exclusion criteria

• inability to provide informed consent on their own
• presence of obvious signs of cognitive decline
• a diagnosis of dementia and inability to come to the clinic for the scheduled study visits.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Chair-based resistance band training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: THERABand resistance exercise bands