Physical Activity, Function and Quality of Life in Patients After Endovascular Treatment

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peripheral Vascular Disease

Treatments: Other: Systematic physical training with instructor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01109732

2009/2192-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate how systematic physical training after endovascular treatment influence the durability of the endovascular treatment and how it effects physical function, quality of life and future cardiovascular events.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 55 years old or older
• successful endovascular
• living in Oslo or in the close area being able to come to physical training classes at the hospital

Exclusion criteria

• endovascular treatment on study-leg last 2 years
• other reasons for reduced walking function than peripheral arterial disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Systematic physical training

Experimental group

Description:

Hospital-based SET two days per week for 12 weeks and one home-based exercise session every week. The group-based SET was based on The Norwegian Ullevaal Model, a modified cardiac rehabilitation program, and was slightly adjusted to be applicable to this patient group. Each SET session lasted for 60 minutes and consisted of warm-up exercises, three high-intensity, two moderate-intensity and cool-down exercises, including stretching. The exercises were generally simple aerobic dance movements and walking and involved the use of both upper and lower extremities. The warm-up exercises included large muscle movements that were repeated later in the higher-intensity intervals, but with greater force and a larger range of movement.

Treatment:

Other: Systematic physical training with instructor

Treatment as of today

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group did not receive any additional follow-up regarding exercise at discharge beyond the general advice about the importance of exercise that is routinely provided at the hospital.