A Controlled Trial of Effectiveness of a Backward Walking Program in Patients Recovering From Abdominal Aorta Surgery

NCT00819936 | Completed Phase 4

• 1 other identifier: B.W 2008/A
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 47
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Summary Question: Does backward walking offer additional therapeutic value in patients after aortic aneurysm surgery? Participants: The study of backward walking as an addictive physiotherapy procedure was conducted in the group of 65 patients who underwent abdominal aorta surgery. The patients were randomly divided into three subgroups and three various models of physiotherapy were applied. Control group has only routine physiotherapy since therapeutic group I and II have also walking exercises forward in group I and backward in group II respectively.

Conditions

Abdominal Surgery

Keywords

abdominal aorta surgery; Physical Training; backward walking; physiotherapy

Study Arms (2)

2

EXPERIMENTAL

Backward walking,

Procedure: backward walking

1

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Forward walking

Procedure: forward walking

Interventions

forward walking PROCEDURE

comparison forward walking vs backward walking in the physiotherapy after after abdominal surgery

1

backward walking PROCEDURE

physiotherapy with use a backward walking type of physiotherapy

2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years - 75 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Age 65-75 years
• Male sex
• Stable cardiologic status
• Absence of neurological disorders
• Non-symptomatic aneurysm - non-ruptured
• No pain complaints
• No motion system impairments

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with neurological disorders
• Unstable coronary heart disease symptomatic aortic aneurysm - dissecans aneurysm
• Having difficulty in locomotion
• Having contradiction for starting physical training during the first or second day after surgery
• Patients with psychiatric disease
• Lack of patient's compliance with physiotherapist; AND
• Other medical contraindications

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Medical University of Silesia: lead

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 4
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2009
• First Posted: January 9, 2009
• Study Start: January 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2005
• Study Completion: December 1, 2006
• Last Updated: January 9, 2009

Record last verified: 2009-01