The Effects of Baduanjin Exercise on Meridian Energy and Heart Rate Variability in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Sugery

Tzu Chi University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Open Heart Surgery

Treatments: Behavioral: Walk 30mins; Behavioral: Walk plus Baduanjin; Behavioral: Baduanjin; Other: usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04670367

TCU-CHHuang-BaduanjinHeart

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) consists of supervised exercise training in conjunction with other secondary prevention interventions. However, CR is not widely used because of distance, financial resources, work and other time constraints, gender, age, social support, illness perceptions, and psychiatric problems. Baduanjin is a type of movement-based mind-body intervention. It is a form of traditional practice designed to promote physical and psychological health, manage symptoms, and relieve stress during illness. Patients with heart disease have frequently used it. The impacts of a Baduanjin exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program for patients recovering from CAD under coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or valve replacement on Meridian Energy Analysis Device (MEAD100, Med- Pex Enterprises, Taichung, Taiwan) and heart rate variability (HRV) has yet to be assessed. This trial evaluates whether the Baduanjin exercise would provide effective meridian energy and HRV in patients following CABG.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 25-70 age range
• Undergoing open heart surgery
• Hemodynamically stable
• Ambulatory
• No advanced vision defect
• The physician authorized by the operating physician for participation in the exercise
• Patients who agreed to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• The presence of pulmonary, neurological, musculoskeletal disease limiting participation in exercise training
• Patients at high risk (ejection fraction below 40 percent)
• Dissectant aneurysm
• Patients who cannot be cooperative in verbal and / or auditory terms
• Psychological and / or perceptual cooperative patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Arm A: usual care

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

routine usual care

Treatment:

Other: usual care

Arm B: walk

Experimental group

Description:

walk 30mins per day, 5 days per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Walk 30mins

Arm C: Baduanjin

Experimental group

Description:

Baduanjin 12 mins per day, 5 days per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Baduanjin

Arm D: Baduanjin plus walk

Experimental group

Description:

walk 30mins then Baduanjin 12 mins per day, 5 days per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Walk plus Baduanjin