NCT05487898

Benefits of Cycling Wheelchair Training for Elderly With Physical Disability

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taichung Veterans General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To investigate the feasibility of cycling wheelchair training as an exercise for elderly disabled patients, and to determine its effects on cognition, quality of life, aerobic capacity and physiological markers. We measure SF-12. Other outcome measures included the Mini-Mental State Examination, Aero bike workload test, resting blood pressure (systolic and diastolic), and heart rate.

Conditions

• Aged; Disable; Exercise; Rehabilitation; Wheelchair

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Cycling wheelchair	Apply the mechanical principle of pedaling on a bicycle to a conventional wheelchair

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2022-08-04
• Last updated: 2022-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan