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Otago Exercises on the Risk of Falling in Prostatic Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Prostate
Interventions
Other: otago excercises
Other: Medical ADT treatment
Registration Number
NCT06605846
Lead Sponsor
MTI University
Brief Summary

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a common treatment for older men with advanced prostate cancer (PCa) but is associated with numerous deleterious health effects that may accentuate age associated physiological declines.

Decreased lower body muscle mass and strength, cognitive decline, worsen fatigue and progressive loss of BMD following initiating ADT could put prostate cancer survivors at higher risk of impaired physical functioning performance and subsequently developing falls. Otago training is helpful, and one of the most powerful interventions where the original randomized controlled trials reported improvements in functional outcomes and a 35% reduction in falls for frail, high-risk older adults (Shubert et al., 2018). In Egypt, there are little researches about Otago Exercise Program.

Detailed Description

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a common treatment for older men with advanced prostate cancer (PCa) but is associated with numerous deleterious health effects that may accentuate age associated physiological declines.

Decreased lower body muscle mass and strength, cognitive decline, worsen fatigue and progressive loss of BMD following initiating ADT could put prostate cancer survivors at higher risk of impaired physical functioning performance and subsequently developing falls.

Otago training is helpful, and one of the most powerful interventions where the original randomized controlled trials reported improvements in functional outcomes and a 35% reduction in falls for frail, high-risk older adults (Shubert et al., 2018). In Egypt, there are little researches about Otago Exercise Program.

Exercise is well-known as an economic and key adjuvant treatment in clinical oncology that improves QOL of cancer survivors. Many studies focused on investigating the benefits of exercise interventions on preventing falls and improving physical performance of older adults. Combination of strength and functional balance exercise has been demonstrated as an effective method to improve balance performance, rather than strength training alone

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Male
Target Recruitment
110
Inclusion Criteria
  • Men aged 50 years or older diagnosed with adenocarcinoma prostate cancer.

    • Will initiate and receive continuous ADT (luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist (LHRH) or combination of LHRH and anti-androgen) for at least 6 months after recruitment.
    • Report > 1 fall in the past year OR have a score on one of two physical performance tests that is associated with increased fall risk (i.e., ≥ 12.0 s to complete the 3 m timed up and go (TUG)
    • Willing to attend >75% of intervention Otago exercises
Exclusion Criteria
  • severe cardiac disease (New York Heart Association class III or greater), angina,
  • uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure > 160/95 mmHg), moderate to severe aortic stenosis, acute illness or fever, uncontrolled atrial or ventricular dysrhythmias, uncontrolled sinus tachycardia (> 120 beats per minute), third-degree atrioventricular heart block
  • lower limb fracture within last 3 months , lower limb amputation

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Otago exercise trainingotago excercisesThis group included 52 patients receive Otago exercise training for 45 minutes after each session with routine medical care for prostatic cancer patients
controlMedical ADT treatmentThis group included 52 patients receive routine medical care for prostatic cancer patients.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Isometric knee muscle strengthbase line and 24 weeks

will be used to evaluate knee extension and flexion isometric strength.

Bone mineral density (BMDbase line and 24 weeks

will be used to evaluate Bone mineral density of the lumbar spine (LS) and femoral neck (FN)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Timed up and go (TUG) testbase line and 24weeks

will be used to measure basic mobility skills. The measurement outcome for TUG is the time it takes to rise up out of a chair, walk 3 m away from the chair, walk 3 m back to the chair, and return to the seated position

Berg Balance Scale (BBS)base line and 24weeks

Used to assess the patient ability to balance his /her body during activities and risk of fall

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MTI university

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Multiple Locations, Egypt

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