NCT05177952

Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction on Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

The Chronic Effects of Low-Load Blood Flow Restriction or Standard of Care Resistance Exercise on Muscle and Neuromuscular Function in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Central Florida · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research is being done to compare the current standard of care for strength training for patients with Multiple Sclerosis to lightweight resistance training with blood flow restriction.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of the current Multiple Sclerosis standard of care exercise recommendations to low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction on functional outcomes, strength, muscle size, and neuromuscular control in Multiple Sclerosis patients. This study involves completing 2 training sessions per week for 12 weeks as well as pre- and post-training assessment visits for a total of 29 visits over 14 weeks. All visits will be on UCF's campus with a member of the research team.

Conditions

• Training Study
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Blood Flow Restriction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Blood Flow Restriction	Resistance training with BFR
OTHER	Standard of Care	Resistance Training with no BFR

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-31
• Completion: 2024-05-31
• First posted: 2022-01-05
• Last updated: 2024-06-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States