Heart Failure and Regional Specific Exercise Training Stimulus (HF-RSTS)

Duke University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Sedentary; Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Regional Specific Training (RSTS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02077426

Pro00051711

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine whether heart failure patients can tolerate a four-weeks of a new exercise training regimen that targets peripheral tissues (Regional Specific Training Stimulus-RSTS) and has been show to produce significant benefits in aerobic capacity and strength in healthy subjects aged 70+years who were at risk for losing functional independence.

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women between the ages of 55 and 90
• Diagnosed with heart failure (NYHA class II-III)
• Receiving optimal medical therapy
• Sedentary (≤ 30 min/wk structured physical activity)
• Peak VO2 between 10 and 30 mL/kg/min.

Exclusion criteria

• Oxygen dependent
• Recent medications changes (within 3 months)
• Fixed-rate pacemakers
• Uncontrolled hypertension
• Type I diabetes
• Organ transplant
• Bariatric surgery
• Renal failure (stage 4 or 5)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Regional Specific Training (RSTS)

Experimental group

Description:

The RSTS protocol was designed to focus on specific peripheral muscle groups without imposing a significant cardiorespiratory strain. Each exercise involved contractions with moderate load but with an extended duration of up to six minutes. Eight specific exercises were performed to target all major muscle groups and enable the routine to be completed within 60 minutes including warm-up, rest periods and stretching between exercises, and cool down exercises

Treatment:

Other: Regional Specific Training (RSTS)