NCT00819936

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

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Silesia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 65 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	forward walking	comparison forward walking vs backward walking in the physiotherapy after after abdominal surgery
PROCEDURE	backward walking	physiotherapy with use a backward walking type of physiotherapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-01-01
• Primary completion: 2005-12-01
• Completion: 2006-12-01
• First posted: 2009-01-09
• Last updated: 2009-01-09