Intensive prehabilitation for people living with chronic spinal cord injury: a feasibility trial

Griffith University0 sites5 target enrollmentSeptember 7, 2022

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

September 7, 2022

End Date

July 7, 2023

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Inclusion/exclusion criteria for participants have been determined in consultation with medical and
•rehabilitation specialists including a clinician with a lived experience of SCI.
•Participants will be included if they:
•1\.Have sustained a traumatic spinal cord injury a minimum of 12 months prior to consent and have completed their primary rehabilitation;
•2\.Have stable neurological level and functional ability of more than 6 months in duration;
•3\.Are over 18 years and able to give informed consent;
•4\.Are ASIA A or B (as per the International Standards for Neurological Classification of spinal cord injury) (documented by an ISNCSCI/ASIA exam performed by a qualified practitioner within the last 6 months);
•5\.Are able and willing to attend an exercise program five times per week for 16 weeks;
•7\.Have not exercised more than 2 times a week, 40 weeks a year (or no more than 80 sessions per year), at a SCI recovery or specialist rehabilitation centre in the last two years;
•8\.Are considered by their general practitioner or specialist medical consultant to be fit to undertake the exercise program (documented approval by general practitioner required).

•Participants will not be included if they:
•1\.Have significant concomitant central nervous system, peripheral nervous system or musculoskeletal system injuries or disorders limiting ability to exercise;
•2\.Have had recent major trauma or surgery within the last 6 months;
•3\.Have an existing stage 3 or 4 pressure ulcer according to the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel classification;
•4\.Have endocrinopathy or metabolic disorders of the bone, such as Paget’s disease, lytic or renal bone disease, and senile osteoporosis;
•5\.Have a medical history of exposure to medication(s) known to affect mineral or bone metabolism;
•6\.Have significant impairment or disability, including physical, neurological or psychological impairments, additional to the spinal cord injury;
•7\.Have a history of long bone fracture incompletely healed;
•8\.Have extensive fixed contractures in the upper or lower limbs;
•9\.Have severe spasticity;