Flexi-Bar and Multi-Component Exercises

Yang Shang-Yu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Older Adults

Treatments: Other: Flexi-Bar Exercise; Other: Multi-Component exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05025137

CRREC-109

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Previous studies have suggested that both Flexi-Bar and Multi-Component exercises can improve an individual's physical fitness and musculoskeletal discomfort. However, determining which is more effective in enhancing the frailty, physical fitness, and musculoskeletal discomfort of the elderly remains controversial.

Objective: This study aims to investigate differences in the effectiveness of Flexi-Bar and Multi-Component exercises in improving the frailty, physical fitness, and musculoskeletal discomfort of the elderly after 12 weeks of intervention.

Methods: A single-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted to collect data from a city in central Taiwan. Participants were randomly divided into a Flexi-Bar group (FB group) and a Multi-Component exercise group (MCE group). Participants in the FB group performed a 60-minute Flexi-Bar exercise every week for 12 consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, Participants in the MCE group performed a 60-minute Multi-Component exercise every week for 12 consecutive weeks. Tests were conducted both before and after the 12-week intervention using items including the Kihon Checklist, Senior Fitness Test, and Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 88 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (1) participants aged 65 years and over;
• (2) participants who could communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese and cooperate with sports activities; and
• (3) participants who could walk independently without assistance (or with aid).

Exclusion criteria

• (1) participants with unstable physiological conditions (or those who were recommended against participating in physical activities by their doctor);
• (2) participants with unstable mental conditions; and
• (3) participants who could not complete the 12-week exercise intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Flexi-Bar group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the Flexi-Bar group performed a 60-minute Flexi-Bar exercise every week for 12 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Flexi-Bar Exercise

Multi-Component exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the Multi-Component exercise group performed a 60-minute Multi-Component exercise every week for 12 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Multi-Component exercise