Telerehabilitation Program and Detraining in Patients With Post-COVID-19 Sequelae

Campus docent Sant Joan de Déu-Universitat de Barcelona

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Telerehabilitation program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05866224

Hospital of Mataró

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of a 15-week home telerehabilitation program and a detraining period on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular efficiency in patients with post-COVID-19 sequelae compared to a control group of COVID-19 patients. We hypothesize that cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular efficiency significantly improve in patients who carry out the home telerehabilitation program. However, the cardiorespiratory and muscular adaptations achieved and tolerance to exercise are lost over time as an effect of detraining.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age > 18 years
• molecular diagnosis (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction [RT-PCR]) of infection by SARS-CoV-2
• post-COVID-19 symptomatology

Exclusion criteria

• severe neurological disease
• active oncological disease
• neuromuscular disease and/or orthopedic disorders impeding normal development of cardiopulmonary exercise test
• the absence of signed informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

Supervised home telerehabilitation program

Experimental group

Description:

COVID-19 patients will perform a total of 15 weeks of a telerehabilitation program combined with aerobic and strength exercises using the circuit training methodology. COVID-19 patients will carry out 3 weekly sessions on non-consecutive days to avoid unnecessary overload and maximize the adaptations, completing a total of 45 sessions

Treatment:

Other: Telerehabilitation program

non-supervised control group

No Intervention group

Description:

COVID-19 patients that will not perform the telerehabilitation program