Lower Limb Resistance Training in Older Inpatients

Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

Status

Completed

Conditions

Muscle Weakness

Treatments

Other: Usual care

Other: Resistance training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02141126

RCSI-SJH-MISA (Other Identifier)

RCSI-SJH-MISA-2013 (Other Identifier)

RCSI-SJH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this feasibility study is to evaluate the feasibility of delivering a PRT programme in an inpatient older person rehabilitation setting and to describe changes in lower limb strength and physical function following six weeks of resistance training and routine physiotherapy versus a control group of routine physiotherapy only in an older inpatient population.

Full description

This is a prospective, single blinded, randomised controlled feasibility study recruiting consecutive appropriate patients in this post-acute rehabilitation unit.

Feasibility outcomes including safety, recruitment, measurements, adherence, retention and satisfaction will be evaluated. There are two groups (i) exercise intervention and (ii) control. It will not be possible to blind the treating physiotherapist or the patient to the exercise intervention; hence the single (assessor) blinded design.

The study will be based in St James's Hospital, Dublin. Assessments and the delivery of the exercise intervention will be conducted in the Physiotherapy department.

Patients will be recruited in the inpatient setting. Appropriate patients will be approached, and the intervention explained to them. The patient will be given an information leaflet and 24-hours to consider involvement in the study

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients, male and female elderly inpatients 65 years.
Patients must be medically stable.
Patients who are able to follow one-stage commands.
Patients must be able to give informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Unstable medical condition.
Patients who are unable to follow one-stage commands.
Acute pain or fracture
Patients who are unable to stand or require more than assistance of two staff to mobilise/transfer.
Patients who have been admitted with a recent diagnosis of stroke, due to their varying patterns of recovery.