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Periodized Rehabilitation and Beta-alanine Supplementation in Multiple Sclerosis

NCT03803800 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 31

Last updated 2020-02-13

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Summary

Exercise therapy and increased physical activity in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) improves mobility, muscular strength, physical fitness and fatigue without increasing relapse rate. As such, physical activity and more particular exercise therapy have become an important part of MS rehabilitation. Despite the fact that the positive effects of exercise therapy in MS are obvious only 43 percent of the MS community reports to participate in an exercise program4. Therefore, new exercise therapy approaches that further optimize rehabilitation, improve exercise adherence and promote participation in physical exercise in MS are interesting to explore. Therefore, the randomized controlled trial investigates two types of exercise interventions (classic progressive vs periodized) with or without the addition of ergogenic supplements (beta-alanine vs placebo).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Classic, progressive endurance training

Moderate intensity endurance training will be performed following a sequence of 5 training sessions every 2 weeks throughout the 12-week intervention. Sessions will include 60min of cycling on a stationary bicycle. Exercise intensity will match 60-80% of the maximal heart rate (HRmax)

OTHER

Periodized exercise training

Throughout the 12-week periodized intervention, subjects will perform four recurrent 3-week cycles of moderate endurance training (week 1,three sessions, 60min/session, 60-80% HRmax), high intensity interval training (week 2, three sessions, 10min/session, 3x20sec supramaximal sprint interspersed with recovery intervals of 2min), and recovery weeks (week 3, one high intense interval session as described above)

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

beta-alanine

Some subjects will receive the ergogenic supplement beta-alanine.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hasselt University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bert O Eijnde · University Hasselt

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-09
Primary Completion
2019-12-01
Completion
2019-12-09

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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