High Intensity Interval Training for thE Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients - a Feasibility Pilot studY.
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Muscle Weakness
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Geneva
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Proportion of patients who complete the rehabilitation program
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is a pilot study for evaluating the feasibility of using High Intensity Interval Training in geriatric hospitalized patients compared to the standard current rehabilitation practice.
Detailed Description
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has shown a superior effectiveness and efficiency when compared to Moderate Intensity Continuous Training (MICT) in several types of patients and in healthy subjects. There are no data on HIIT in a general geriatric population. This study is a pilot study evaluating the feasibility of using HIIT in geriatric hospitalized patients compared to the standard current rehabilitation practice without HIIT. It is our desire to perform a larger randomized comparative trial between HIIT and MICT if the pilot study proves its feasibility.
Investigators
Jean-Luc Reny
Head of division, Internal medicine and rehabilitation Trois-Chêne
University Hospital, Geneva
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients aged 65 years and older hospitalized for rehabilitation after an acute medical condition
- •Expected duration of the rehabilitation ≥ 2 weeks
- •Ability to follow instructions to perform a Timed up and Go Test
- •Ability to perform exercises
- •Willing to participate in 4 sessions of HIIT per week for 2 weeks
Exclusion Criteria
- •Any acute condition with tachycardia, hypotension or fever.
- •Abnormal cycle ergometer stress test with
- •significant ECG modification
- •decrease of more than 20 mmHg of the blood pressure with exercise
- •ST depression at a workload \<6 METs
- •Inability to reach an intensity of 15/20 in the Borg's scale of perceived exertion
- •Any unresolved acute medical or surgical condition of the following kind:
- •acute heart failure
- •acute coronary syndrome \< 1 month
- •strole \< 1 month
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Proportion of patients who complete the rehabilitation program
Time Frame: 2 weeks
Secondary Outcomes
- Distance walked in the 6MWT(2 weeks)
- Muscle strength assessed for the upper and lower extremities(2 weeks)
- Step variability changes as a measure of quality of ambulation(2 weeks)