A home-based progressive resistance exercise program assessing healing rates for patients with venous leg ulcers.

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy; Cardiovascular - Coronary heart disease; Venous leg ulcer; Skin - Dermatological conditions

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000469910
• Lead Sponsor: Queensland University of Technology

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-05-06
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

Any break in the skin on the lower leg that had been present for six weeks or more
No other causative aetiology being present
Appearing clinically venous
An ABPI of greater than 0.8, but less than 1.3.

Exclusion Criteria

Clinical signs of cellulitis

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Healing rates of venous leg ulcers as measured by healed or not healed, percent reduction in ulcer size and PUSH score[Baseline, week 6 and Week 12 post intervention start date]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Calf Muscle pump function as measured by Air Plethysmography - Ejection fraction, Residual Volume fraction and venous filling Index[Baseline and Week 12 post intervention start date];Fitness parameters - calf muscle enduurance (maximum number of heel raises) calf muscle strength (myometer) and ankle range of motion (goniometer)[Baseline, week 6 and week 12 post intervention start date]