Clinical trial NCT02316067: Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Corporal Suspension and Pendulum Exercises
Official title: Effect of Corporal Suspension and Pendulum Exercises on Torque, Muscle Activation, Muscle Thickness and Functionality in Patients With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Spinal Cord Injuries
Keywords: Spinal cord
Wounds and Injuries
Rehabilitation
Lead sponsor: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
name: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
First posted: 2014-12-12
Enrollment: 26
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of an exercise program proposed by the CHORDATA® Method on the functionality, maximal isometric torque, muscle activity and muscle thickness of trunk muscles in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.

The hypothesis is that the CHORDATA® Method could reduce the deleterious effects of the traumatic spinal cord injury.

Detailed description: Participants were allocated into one of two groups (rehabilitation or control). Rehabilitation group (8 weeks of rehabilitation; CHORDATA® Method) Control group (patients with up to three years of traumatic spinal cord injury): Participants maintained their daily-life activities routine during the same eight weeks period and were tested before and after this control period. At the end of the control period, patients interested at participating on the training program were included in the intervention group

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients that suffered traumatic spinal cord injury in the last 42 months, capable of transporting themselves for rehabilitation at the physical therapy clinic and for the neuromuscular tests at the laboratory where measurements were performed.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Body weight above 95kg
* Physical and functional limitations impeding them of performing physical activity
* Physically incapacitating diseases (e.g severe cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, oncologic diseases, systemic arterial hypertension)
* Visual deficit that impeded reading
* Recurrent vertigo or hypotension to exercise
* Engaged in other treatments that could constitute a confounding effect
* Changed their daily life activities during the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Torque change ( assessed by dynamometry.)
timeFrame: Torque was measured 2 times during the study: Pre-intervention/control and post-intervention/control (8 weeks after the first assessment).
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Muscular electrical activation change (assessed by electromyography (EMG)
timeFrame: Muscular electrical activation was measured 2 times during the study: Pre-intervention/control and post-intervention/control (8 weeks after the first assessment).
Other outcomes:
measure: Muscle thickness change (assessed by ultrasonography)
timeFrame: Muscle thickness was measured 2 times during the study: Pre-intervention/control and post-intervention/control (8 weeks after the first assessment).
measure: Functional performance change (assessed by Functional Reach Adapted Test)
timeFrame: Functional performace was measured 2 times during the study: Pre-intervention/control and post-intervention/control (8 weeks after the first assessment).
Locations:
city: Porto Alegre
country: Brazil
facility: Exercise Research Laboratory, School of Physical Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
state: Rio Grande do Sul
Study officials:
affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
name: Carlos A Netto, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Frison VB, Lanferdini FJ, Geremia JM, de Oliveira CB, Radaelli R, Netto CA, Franco AR, Vaz MA. Effect of corporal suspension and pendulum exercises on neuromuscular properties and functionality in patients with medullar thoracic injury. Clin Biomech (Bristol). 2019 Mar;63:214-220. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2019.02.012. Epub 2019 Feb 23.