Investigation of the Effects of Different Exercise on Wound Healing in Patients wıth Diabetic Foot Wounds

Harran University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Wound; Diabetic Foot Ulcer

Treatments: Other: aerobic exercise; Other: exercise protocol; Other: standard treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05422846

diabetic rehabilitation

Details and patient eligibility

About

Exercise studies with patients with diabetic foot ulcers are very few. In this disease group, since it is considered dangerous to put a load on the foot, a barrier has been placed between the patients and the exercise. With the study investigators plan to do, investigators will try to exercise in these patients in a controlled manner. Among the patients divided into 3 groups, the 1st group will apply the control group, the 2nd group will perform aerobic exercise, and the 3rd group will apply the exercises investigators have determined as the protocol group. 12 weeks, 2 sessions a week will be exercised with the help of a physiotherapist. Patients will be evaluated at baseline, at the end of week 4, at the end of week 8, and at the end.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having been diagnosed with Type II diabetes and having a foot ulcer
• Being in the 1st or 2nd category according to the Wagner classification
• Not to have a serious musculoskeletal, cardiac, neurological, etc. systemic disease that may interfere with the research.
• Not having any communication problems
• Having the same wound care procedure
• Not taking any other treatment that may have an effect on the wound.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals with a diagnosed psychiatric illness,
• Individuals who have received any physiotherapy treatment in the last 3 months,
• Individuals with acute infection,
• Individuals with toe pressure < 40 mmHg
• Individuals with Charcot Foot and/or osteomyelitis
• Individuals with venous ulcer disease
• Individuals who are morbidly obese (BMI >40) according to body mass index
• Individuals with incurable proliperative retinopathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 3 patient groups

exercise protocol group

Experimental group

Description:

The group that applied progressive exercise according to the motivation of patients and healing status of ulcers.

Treatment:

Other: exercise protocol

aerobic exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

The group performing aerobic exercise with a bicycle ergometer

Treatment:

Other: aerobic exercise

control group

Experimental group

Description:

The group to which standard applications of DFU treatment will be applied

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment