NCT06210763

IMT Outcomes in Sufferers of Severe Walking Disabilities and Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness

Inspiratory Muscle Training Outcomes in Sufferers of Severe Walking Disabilities and Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-acquired weakness) may be caused by a variety of different causes. Several studies have shown that ICU-acquired weakness occurs in up to 30% of critically ill patients. It affects daily activities, walking, and functional performance

Detailed description

Forty ICU-acquired weakness elderly patients will be randomly assigned to group A and group B, 20 elderly for each. Both groups will receive chest physiotherapy (cough training, vibration, percussion, rib springing, and postural drainage), 30 minutes of resisted training on upper- and lower-limb muscles (15 min on upper limb and 15 min on lower limb), and 30 minutes of neuromuscular electrical stimulation of lower- and upper-limb muscles (triceps and wrist extensors, dorsiflexors, and quadriceps). sessions will be executed 5 times weekly). Group A only will receive 3-set IMT (two sessions daily via threshold IMT, the set contain 10 repetitions) 5 times weekly. The study duration will be 1 month.

Conditions

• Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Threshold IMT and traditional physical therapy program	twenty ICU-acquired weakness elderly patients will receive chest physiotherapy (cough training, vibration, percussion, rib springing, and postural drainage), 30 minutes of resisted training on upper- and lower-limb muscles (15 min on upper limb and 15 min on lower limb), and 30 minutes of neuromuscular electrical stimulation of lower- and upper-limb muscles (triceps and wrist extensors, dorsiflexors, and quadriceps). sessions will be executed 5 times weekly). this Group will receive 3-set IMT (two sessions daily via threshold IMT, the set contain 10 repetitions) 5 times weekly. The study duration will be 1 month.
BEHAVIORAL	traditional physiotherapy program	twenty ICU-acquired weakness elderly patients will receive chest physiotherapy (cough training, vibration, percussion, rib springing, and postural drainage), 30 minutes of resisted training on upper- and lower-limb muscles (15 min on upper limb and 15 min on lower limb), and 30 minutes of neuromuscular electrical stimulation of lower- and upper-limb muscles (triceps and wrist extensors, dorsiflexors, and quadriceps). sessions will be executed 5 times weekly).

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-02
• Primary completion: 2024-03-30
• Completion: 2024-03-30
• First posted: 2024-01-18
• Last updated: 2024-01-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt