Effect of Technology-assisted Physical Therapy for Patient With High Risk of Sarcopenia
- Conditions
- Sarcopenia
- Registration Number
- NCT05687630
- Lead Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
- Brief Summary
This research aims to identify whether the effects of video-assisted physical therapy, including home resistance training, is superior to traditional physical therapy, education leaflet for example.
This is an interventional research, single-blind, randomized control trail. We recruit high risk of sarcopenia people (low muscle strength and low physical performance) Two groups of participants are divided into traditional group and video-assisted group, both group are taught the same resisted exercise by physical therapist.
- Detailed Description
Both group will record his/her baseline activity level with a given pedometer. After one week recording, we started initial evaluation (history taking, physical examination) and intervention.
Participants are taught thera-band resisted exercise, including large musculature of upper and lower extremities, each exercise are conducted 10-15 times for 3 sets.
Traditional group will receive an education leaflet and a notebook to record his/ her daily activity and frequency of exercise to record the compliance.
Video-assisted group will receive a QR code, which contain a website of exercise video on the cloud.
After 3 months intervention, participant will come back to our center for final examination.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- Age above 65 years old
- MMSE > 24 points
- walking more than 6 meters independently
- people who cannot participate for 3 -day exercise for each week
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Grip strength three months after initial evaluation use hand dynamometer to test maximal strength
walking speed three months after initial evaluation walk for 4 meters to test the time that participant used
Timed up-and-go test three months after initial evaluation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) three months after initial evaluation