Passive Stretching Versus Electrical Stimulation on Glucose Level, in Elderly With Type II Diabetes

Mona Mohamed Abdelkhalek

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Type II Diabetes

Treatments: Other: passive stretching for group A; Other: electrical stimulation for group b

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06245252

Mona 1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sixty elderly diabetics (type II) their age ranged from 60-75 years had been divided into two equal groups; group (A) treated by 40-minute passive stretching exercises, while the group (B) treated by 30 minutes electrical stimulation three times per week for 12 weeks. Blood glucose level,Time up and go test (TUG) and Fatigue severity scale were done before and after 12 weeks of the study.Conclusion: Both electrical stimulation and passive stretching are effective to lowering blood glucose level and can be proposed for those people restricted to perform exercise.

Full description

Background: Physical exercise is one of the bases for controlling and treatment type 2 diabetes mellitus. But not all diabetic elderly is able to perform physical exercise because of their physical limitation condition. The approach for those people in this study is electrical stimulation and passive stretching. Purpose: The aim of this study is to compare the effect of passive stretching and electrical stimulation on blood glucose level, functional mobility and Perceived-Fatigue in diabetic elderly. Methods: Sixty elderly diabetics (type II) their age ranged from 60-75 years had been divided into two equal groups; group (A) treated by 40-minute passive stretching exercises, while the group (B) treated by 30 minutes electrical stimulation three times per week for 12 weeks. Blood glucose level,Time up and go test (TUG) and Fatigue severity scale were done before and after 12 weeks of the study.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HbA1c value between 6.5% -8.5%,
• age ranged from 60-75 years patients have
• body mass index (BMI) from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2,
• duration of diabetes ranged from 5-7 years. They were
• on oral hypoglycemic medications at the same dose.
• All patients were clinically and medically stable when attending the study.

Exclusion criteria

• unstable cardiovascular,
• chest problems
• other types of diabetes
• on insulin therapy
• chronic renal failure and
• iron deficient anemia and
• musculoskeletal disorders which may affect their physical ability to do the exercises.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

group (A)

Experimental group

Description:

treated by 40-minute passive stretching exercises,three times per week for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: passive stretching for group A

group (B)

Experimental group

Description:

treated by 30 minutes electrical stimulation three times per week for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: electrical stimulation for group b