Deconditioning, Isolation Precautions Clinical Trial
Official title:
Using Telerehabilitation Tools to Deliver Quality Therapy to Patients Under Infective Isolation Precautions
Single blinded Randomised Controlled trial comparing standard therapy to the intervention of up to 1 hour of physiotherapist-prescribed resistive training exercises administered via a telerehabilitation device per day in addition to standard therapy for a total of 10 sessions over a 2 week period. Total recruitment: 60 patients.
This is a single blinded randomised control trial. From August 2018 to March 2019, a total of
60 subjects, who match the inclusion exclusion criteria, will be recruited from patients
transferred to the SGH Isolation wards.
They will be randomly assigned to control or treatment arm based on a block randomisation
strategy predetermined and held by an independent party.
The treatment arm will be given up to 1 hour of physiotherapist-prescribed resistive training
exercises administered via a telerehabilitation device per day in addition to standard
therapy for a total of 10 sessions over a 2 week period. They will be evaluated for motor
strength, activity of daily living performance, mood and perceived level of health.
The control arm will be subject to the same assessments as the treatment arm at the start and
end of the two week period. They will receive standard care in the ward including
physiotherapy as prescribed by the managing team.
The assessors will be blinded to the arm of the study the subjects will be assigned to and
will be independent of the terating physiotherapist.
1.1. Hypothesis We propose that for patients with deconditioning after a prolonged period of
hospitalization and needing inpatient isolation precautions, that a 2-week course of daily,
up to 1-hour long, physiotherapist-developed resistive training exercises will result in a
20% improvement in the motor power and a corresponding improvement in motor functioning and
the perceived quality of life compared to a control group receiving standard therapy.
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