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The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Stroke Patients

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Gaziler Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke, Cardiovascular

Treatments

Other: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Functional Capacity, Balance and Ventricular Repolarization Indices in Stroke Patients

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background:

Aerobic exercise training has favorable effects on quality of life, motor recovery, and aerobic endurance after stroke.

Objectives: In this study, the investigators aimed to explore the effects of anti-gravity treadmill gait training and underwater walking therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in stroke survivors.

Full description

Methods: Seventy patients with a history of stroke were admitted to our center between July 2017 and January 2018. Subjects who participated in the study were randomly assigned to anti-gravity treadmill training, underwater walking therapy, and control group. Investigators examined the aerobic capacity of participants by using the 6-minute walk test and cycle ergometer testing before starting the treatment along with a one-month follow-up. The patient's balance was examined by using the Berg Balance Scale (BBS).

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients between the ages of 18 and 80 and diagnosed with stroke and time from stroke onset to admission were longer than three months
  • Independent walking ability more than 10 meters with or without assistance
  • Patients whose cognitive and functional status were suitable for the training program

Exclusion criteria

  • Had a previous history of stroke
  • Bilateral hemiplegia
  • Leg-length difference >2.0 cm
  • Fixed flexion contracture or severe joint deformity
  • Bladder or bowel incontinence
  • Open wound
  • Cardiovascular complaints and can not tolerate exercise training
  • Other neurological comorbidities including, multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic brain injury (TBI), Parkinson's disease, and intracranial tumors
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Atrial fibrillation (AF), use of antiarrhythmic drugs affecting QT duration, any type of bundle branch block on electrocardiogram (ECG)

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 3 patient groups

Conventional theraphy group
Active Comparator group
Description:
13 patients received twenty sessions of conventional therapy for four weeks
Treatment:
Other: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Functional Capacity, Balance and Ventricular Repolarization Indices in Stroke Patients
Anti gravity treadmill training
Active Comparator group
Description:
13 patients received twenty sessions of conventional therapy for four weeks and Alter-G training was performed 3 days/week for 4 weeks, with up to 30 min. of training per session.
Treatment:
Other: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Functional Capacity, Balance and Ventricular Repolarization Indices in Stroke Patients
Underwater walking therapy group
Active Comparator group
Description:
13 patients received twenty sessions of conventional therapy for four weeks and three sessions of aerobic exercise treatment of 45 minutes per week underwater
Treatment:
Other: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Functional Capacity, Balance and Ventricular Repolarization Indices in Stroke Patients

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