NCT04937790

Effects of Postural Balance Exercises in Patients With Heart Failure

Investigation of Effects of Core Stabilization and Computerized Wobble Board Exercise Training Programs in Patients With Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Giresun University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this study, the effects of core stabilization and computerized wobble board exercise training programs on postural balance and functional exercise capacity in patients over 60 years of age with heart failure will be investigated.

Detailed description

This study will consist of core stabilization group (CSG), wobble board group (WBG) and control group. In CSG, exercises that focus basically on the abdominal, pelvic floor, trunk extensor and diaphragm muscles and comply with core stabilization criteria will be applied. In WBG, balance exercises which focus primarily lower limb and trunk muscles, will be performed on computerized wobble board with visual feed-back provided by computerized wobble board. In control group, no exercise will be performed, only the evaluation procedure will be applied at the beginning and 8 weeks later. It was planned to include in total of 36 patients and will be randomized them into three groups with 12 patients. Following the initial assessment, each patient will participate in a one-session patient education program. After that, patients in CSG and WBG will participate in their exercise training program which supervised by physiotherapist, 3 days a week for 8 weeks.When the exercise training programs for 8 weeks were completed, initial evaluations will be re-applied. Collected data will be analyzed with SPSS 22.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) program. The differences between pre- and post-treatment evaluations will be analyzed with "paired t test" and/ or " wilcoxon test".The differences between three groups will be analyzed with one-way analysis of variance and/ or Kruskal-Wallis test.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Systolic Heart Failure
• Diastolic Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Core stabilization group(CSG)	Exercises training of this group occurs from 3 stages. In the stage 1 covering the first two weeks, core stabilization exercises are going to be applied 3 sets of 10 repetitions except side plank. Side plank is going to be performed 3 sets of 10 seconds. Stage 2 is going to include from 3 to 5 weeks. In this stage, exercises are going to be performed 3 sets of 12 repetitions except bride dog, plank and side plank. These exercises are going to be applied 3 sets of 15 seconds. Patients are going to perform exercises of stage 3 from 6 to 8 weeks. Exercises of stage 3 are going to be practiced 3 sets of 15 repetitions except bride dog, side plank and plank exercises which are going to be applied 3 set of 20 second. All stages include the same exercises except modified push-up exercise includes instead of plank exercise in stage 1. All of the exercises are going to practiced 3 days a week for 8 weeks. One of the sessions is estimated to take approximately 45-60 minutes.
BEHAVIORAL	Wobble board group (WBG)	Patients in this group are going to perform exercise on computerized wobble board. This device is going to provide unstable surface to patient and offer visual feedback about their movement qualities. The 8 weeks program consists of 3 stages and each stage includes six exercises. In the first stage covering the first two weeks, repetitive exercises are going to be practiced 3 sets of 10 repetitions; time controlled exercises are going to be practiced 3 sets of 20 seconds. Stage 2 is going to include from 3 to 5 weeks. In this stage, repetitive exercises are going to be performed 3 sets of 12 repetition and time controlled exercises are going to be performed 3 sets of 25 seconds. Stage 3 is going to last from 6 to 8 weeks. In this stage, repetitive exercises are going to be practiced 3 sets of 15 repetitions and time controlled exercises are going to be practiced 3 sets of 30 seconds. One of the sessions is estimated to take approximately 45-60 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-15
• Primary completion: 2022-10-31
• Completion: 2022-12-30
• First posted: 2021-06-24
• Last updated: 2023-01-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)