Performance Developement of Patients With Paraplegia During First Rehabilitation

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of an Individually Tailored Endurance Training on the Performance Developement of Patients With Paraplegia During First Rehabilitation: an Observational Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03405558
• Other study ID #: 2017-01
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

A high physical fitness is crucial for a good quality of life in persons suffering from a spinal cord injury. The aim of the present observational study is to investigate the influence of an individually tailored 8-week endurance training program on endurance performance of patients with a paraplegia during their first rehabilitation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 14
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Written informed consent

• male or female, paraplegia (AIS A-C, lesion Level Th1-Th12)

• Age 18-65 years

• Manual wheelchair user

• Patient during first rehabilitation

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI = 30

• unable to use an arm-crank Ergometer due to e.g. spasticity

• physical impairment, which makes it impossible to perform an arm-crank ergometry

• Progressive disease (g.g. tumor, MS)

• Ventilator dependent

• existing cardiopulmonary disease

• Unstable medical situation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Paraplegia
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention
As this is an observational study, we will only supervise testing and training sessions which were performed anyway during first rehabilitation as daily therapeutic routine

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Swiss Paraplegic Centre	Nottwil	Lucerne

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Peak power	Maximal performance reached during incremental exercise on an arm-crank ergometer	10min