NCT05846386

Early Resistance Training Post Valve Replacement Surgery

Effects of Early Resistance Training on Functional Capacity and Electrocardiographic Changes Post Valve Replacement Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Recent recommendations from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) are multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation including therapeutic exercises for patients after heart valve surgery unless there is insufficient evidence to decide whether therapeutic exercise cardiac training should be provided for such patients. As well, resistance training is an extremely safe systemic physical activity, and it has no contraindications if well-oriented, in addition to being the fastest-growing physical activity in the world in several practitioner settings. Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of early resistance training on the fitness level (vo2 max) and (PR interval) of patients post-valve replacement surgery.

Detailed description

Method: Forty males post-valve replacement surgery participants' age ranged from 20 to 30 years old and were selected randomly from National Heart Institute (Imbaba), this study was conducted in the period between April and November 2022, and those participants were allocated randomly into two equal groups twenty in each group. Group A received aerobic and resistance training three sessions per week for one-month, and group B received aerobic training three sessions per week for one month. All demographic data was recorded and an ECG device was used to record HR and R-P Intervals, Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) was used to assess of cardiorespiratory fitness for all participants in both groups (A\&B)

Conditions

• Valve Disease, Heart

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Resistance training	moderate-intensity resistance training: three sessions per week for one month. Participants had been instructed to perform exercises at a 4:2:4 tempo; that is, four sets of concentric contraction, two sets of isometric hold, and four sets of eccentric contraction. Participants had been instructed to complete a single set until volitional fatigue or been instructed to stop by the physiotherapist when the technique falters
BEHAVIORAL	Aerobic training	The exercise program consisted of ten minutes warm-up, 45 minutes of moderate aerobic exercises "upper extremity aerobic bulk muscles training and arm ergometer" and cool-down in five minutes, respectively. That was done as 3 sessions/week for 4 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-11-30
• Completion: 2022-11-30
• First posted: 2023-05-06
• Last updated: 2023-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt