Prehabilitation in Patients on a Waiting List for a Transplant

University of Malaga

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Transplant Dysfunction

Treatments: Device: Prehabilitation program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03314376

PREHAB-T

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to prove the effects of a individualized prehabilitation program (muscular strength and endurance) in patients in a waiting list for a transplant. The investigators want to see if patients that did a prehabilitation program have better results in the postoperative period.

Full description

Some characteristics of the fragile people, like as sarcopenia, are related with worse results after a transplant. Increasing the cardiorespiratory fitness with an exercise program during the preoperative period has shown improvements in patients after a surgery. It is produced a decreased in his functions, including a loss of muscle mass.

Prehabilitation is a exercise program before a surgery. This program will improve the patient's starting functional status and therefore recovery.

Physical activity is one of the most powerful predictors of mortality risk. Several studies say that a improved cardiorespiratory fitness by exercise before a surgery has a great impact in the patients after the intervention in short and long term.

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients on a waiting list for a transplant.
• Fried Fragility Index >3
• Space more than 6 week between the beginning of the exercise program and the surgery.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe cardiovascular disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Prehabilitation program

Experimental group

Description:

Individualized physiotherapy strength and muscular endurance with aerobic training, led by physiotherapists in groups of 8-10 participants.

Treatment:

Device: Prehabilitation program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

They will be instructed to continue their current activities and not to increase objectively levels of physical activity performed during the 6-week intervention.