NCT01763112

Training With Whole Body Vibration Device in Patients With PAH

Influence of Training With Whole Body Vibration Device (Galileo) on Quality of Life (QoL), Exercise Capacity, as Well as on the Effects of Muscle Power and Muscle Function in Patients With Pulmonal Arterial Hypertension (PAH). (GALILEO PAH)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Klinikum der Universität Köln · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Title of study / project: Influence of training with whole body vibration device on Quality of Life (QoL), exercise capacity, as well as on the effects of muscle power and muscle function in patients with pulmonal arterial hypertension (PAH). Background and rationale for the proposal:Capacity and the ability to exercise, in patients with PAH is limited. There is a few investigations evaluating the effects of the training with whole body vibration (wbv) in adults. It was shown that wbv-training could improve muscle power, QoL, body balance and had positive effects on the neuromuscular system. Primary scientific question addressed:Changes in muscle power, changes in 6-Minute Walk Distance (6MWD) and changes in QoL are to be evaluated.

Detailed description

Study Design: Open Monocentric prospective randomized observational trial Study arms: Treatment group (4-weeks wbv training) planned 20 patients Control group: planned 20 patients Endpoint (-s): Changes in muscle power, changes in 6-Minute Walk Distance (6MWD), changes in QoL changes in peak VO2 (bike exercise test) Major study procedures: Blood samples, vital parameters, questionnaires, echocardiography, lung function test, blood gas analysis, bike exercise test, 6-Minute Walk test, ECG, Chair rising test, power plate measurement, walk across test

Conditions

• Pulmonary Artery Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Exercise Group Galileo PAH	The intervention/exercise group will do whole body vibration training on 4 days a week for 60 minutes over 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2013-01-08
• Last updated: 2015-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany