NCT05687630

Effect of Technology-assisted Physical Therapy for Patient With High Risk of Sarcopenia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research aims to identify whether the effects of video-assisted physical therapy, including home resistance training, is superior to traditional physical therapy, education leaflet for example. This is an interventional research, single-blind, randomized control trail. We recruit high risk of sarcopenia people (low muscle strength and low physical performance) Two groups of participants are divided into traditional group and video-assisted group, both group are taught the same resisted exercise by physical therapist.

Detailed description

Both group will record his/her baseline activity level with a given pedometer. After one week recording, we started initial evaluation (history taking, physical examination) and intervention. Participants are taught thera-band resisted exercise, including large musculature of upper and lower extremities, each exercise are conducted 10-15 times for 3 sets. Traditional group will receive an education leaflet and a notebook to record his/ her daily activity and frequency of exercise to record the compliance. Video-assisted group will receive a QR code, which contain a website of exercise video on the cloud. After 3 months intervention, participant will come back to our center for final examination.

Conditions

• Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	elastic band resisted exercise	muscle strengthening exercise, 10-15 times of each set, for 3 sets

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-11-30
• Completion: 2023-12-30
• First posted: 2023-01-18
• Last updated: 2023-01-18