NCT04211311

Hybrid High-intensity Interval Training for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury. A Feasibility Study

"Feasibility of High-intensity Interval Training (HIIT) as Hybrid Exercise Using Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg-cycling (FEScycling) and Ski Ergometer (SkiErg) With the Arms for People With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Paraplegia"

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examines safety and feasibility of a study protocol using a combination of functional electrical legcycling with voluntary armwork (hybrid training) as either skiergometer or armcycling in high intensity intervals for persons with spinal cord injury paraplegia.

Detailed description

Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common causes of early death in people with spinal cord injury. Physical activity at high intensity is known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in other patient groups. During aerobic training, combining functional electrical stimulation (FES) with voluntary arm-work induces a higher oxygen uptake than FES cycling alone and high intensity interval training induces higher oxygen uptake than training at continuous intensity. The hypothesis is that combining hybrid training with high-intensity induces even higher oxygen uptake thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. This training modality has not been tested before, so before conducting a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of this training modality on oxygen uptake, the aim was to asses safety and feasibility of this protocol.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	hybrid high-intensity training	FES-legcycling combined with either arm skiergometer or arm-cycling in 4 x 4 min. intervals at 90% peak power output, 3 times a week for 8 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-30
• Primary completion: 2018-04-26
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2019-12-26
• Last updated: 2019-12-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark