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Effectiveness of a Home-based, Self-administered Exercise Program for Hands in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis

NCT04481984 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2020-07-22

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Summary

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. Hand involvement is one of the most observed musculoskeletal involvements in patients with SSc, which can impact on general health, quality of life, and psychological status. Hand exercise programs can help patients to improve not only hand function but also general health status; nevertheless, further randomized control trials (RCTs) are needed to clarify its effect. Hence, the investigators aimed to investigate the effectiveness of home-based, self-administered exercise program for hands in patients with SSc and demonstrate the improvements in general health status.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Home-based Hand exercise

Isometric exercise; patients squeezed a hand exercise ball for 60 seconds. This exercise repeated 15-times/3 set per day. Stretching exercises; self-administered stretching exercises were as follows; i) forearm supination and pronation, ii) wrist flexion and extension, iii) finger flexion, extension, and abduction iv) thumb flexion, extension, and abduction. These exercises repeated 10-times/2 set per day.

OTHER

Care advice

Patients received care advice including avoiding cold exposure and trauma.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cukurova University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-15
Primary Completion
2019-06-05
Completion
2019-06-05

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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Diseases

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