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Outcome of Exercise With a Towel in Elderly With Sarcopenia

NCT03258827 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2018-07-18

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Summary

As the proportion of older adults increases, elderly-related issues attract more attention. Sarcopenia is one of the popular elderly-related issues. Sarcopenia may induce decreased muscle strength, poor physical activity, even disability and increase rate of hospitalization and mortality. Therefore, we want to figure out the management for decreasing prevalence of sarcopenia in older adults. This trial is planned to perform during 2017/08/01\~2017/12/31. We plan to enroll 60 elderlies who are sarcopenia. These patient will be divided into 2 group randomize. Experimental group will be received a set of exercise, composed by warm-up, strengthening training with a towel, cold-down, 60 minutes per time, 3 times per week. Control group will be suggested home-based walking activity. We will evaluate the patient's functional performance three times, before training, after training, post-training for three months, respectively. These results will be analyzed by repeated measure ANOVA.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Exercise with a towel

Exercise program composes with warm-up, strengthening exercise, cold-down, 60 minutes/time, 3 times/week. A towel is an important tool for exercise. Total duration of the program is 3 months.

PROCEDURE

Home-based exercise

Home-based program focuses on walking activity at fast speed, 3 times/week, 60 minutes/times. The total duration is 3 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shui Tseng · Chang Gung Medical Foundation Institutional Review Board

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-01
Primary Completion
2018-04-30
Completion
2018-06-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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