Impact of Daily Stair Climbing on Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Heart Patients
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: stair climb.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Rehabilitation. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Impact of Daily Stair Climbing on Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Heart Patients : Single-center Comparative Study in Eole Unit of Arras Hospital Center
Overview
The goal of this interventional study is to improve exercise capacity of patients following a standard rehabilitation program in Arras Hospital with stair climbing . Patients will be randomized in to 2 groups : intervention or control. * Control group will follow standard program. * Intervention group will follow standard program and stair climbing (2 floors, twice a day until the exit). Patients will complete questionnaires and tests before starting study and again at the end (approximately 10 days).
Interventions
- Other stair climb
2 times a day, until exit service (excluding weekends), they will climb two floors of stairs (morning and afternoon, supervised by a therapist)
Primary outcome measures
- Evolution of number of repetitions on chair stand test [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Evolution of dyspnea [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
- Evolution of distance covered on 6-minute walk test [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
- Evolution of quality life score [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
- Evolution of muscle mass of lower limb [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
- Evolution of heart rate post exercise [Time frame: at 10 days or at time of study exit if the patient leaves earlier]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥18 years
- Patients requiring cardiac rehabilitation admitted to the Eole unit
- Patients ability to walk at least 200 meters without technical assistance
Exclusion criteria
- Patient walking with an assistive device
- Patient with a contraindication to climbing stairs
- Pre-operative patient
- Patient with a pacemaker
- Patient with an implanted defibrillator
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Arras general hospital — Arras
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07693348 · 2025-01