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Improving Function in Older Veterans With Hospital-Associated Deconditioning

NCT02696382 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2024-04-01

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Summary

The investigators plan to test an innovative, home-based, short duration, high intensity exercise program designed for application in the immediate post-hospitalization period in older Veterans. Preliminary data suggest a more intensive approach to physical therapy in older adults after hospitalization is safe and maximizes mobility more than usual care. The Veterans participating in the high intensity exercise program will receive therapy utilizing higher resistance exercises. Outcomes from this group will be compared to data collected from the patients receiving standard, lower resistance therapies.

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly
  • Homebound Persons

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Progressive High Intensity Therapy (PHIT)

Participants in the "Progressive High Intensity Therapy" (PHIT) group will receive high intensity physical therapy following discharge from acute hospitalization. The activities of training will include progressive resistance training, multi-planar motor control and gait exercises, and high intensity activities of daily living training. Like the Usual Care group, the PHIT participants will receive 12 intervention visits over 4 weeks (3 visits per week). Participants will also receive a standardized home exercise program.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care (UC)

Participants in the "Usual Care" group will receive standard physical therapy following discharge from acute hospitalization. The activities of therapy will include basic strength training, single-planar motor control and gait exercises, and activities of daily living training. Participants will receive 12 intervention visits over 4 weeks (3 visits per week). Participants will also receive a standardized home exercise program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    collaborator OTHER

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer E. Stevens-Lapsley, PhD · Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
55 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-01
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-10-08

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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