Circuit Training Program for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

NCT ID: NCT04263272

Last Updated: 2020-02-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 16 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-02-29
• Study Completion Date: 2020-07-31

Brief Summary

This initiative represents development and pilot testing of a circuit training exercise program for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) to be implemented within a rehabilitation centre. The program will integrate members of the community who are > 18 months post-injury with those currently participating in SCI rehabilitation as inpatient.

Detailed Description

This initiative represents development and pilot testing of a 16 week circuit training exercise program for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) to be implemented within a rehabilitation centre (Parkwood Institute, London, ON). The primary purpose of this trial is one of feasibility - i.e., testing out several aspects of the trial for the purposes of determining what features of the exercise intervention and the various outcome measurements might be a part of subsequent trials. In addition, a subset of this data will serve as preliminary comparison information for Dr. Dany Gagnon's study at the University of Montreal. In this way, this is not a true multi-centre trial in that we are not conducting an identical protocol to a study he is conducting. Rather, we are using some of the same outcome measures and an exercise intervention that has some similar parameters to one that he is implementing in Montreal - with a view to providing a preliminary comparison of outcomes of a subset of participants in our study so as to inform the development of future studies. For this reason, the group of community-dwelling persons with SCI will have more cardio-metabolic outcome measurements taken, as they represent the primary group of interest to Dr. Gagnon.

Overall, the program will integrate members of the community who are > 18 months post-injury (n=8) with those currently participating in SCI rehabilitation as inpatients (n=8). Outcomes will be collected to test the effects of the program on an array of cardio-metabolic measures in those participants with chronic SCI, as well as the feasibility of the program for all participants (N=16). Note: although a participant can decline to continue participation at any time, it is likely that many inpatient participants will choose to not continue participation if this proves logistically difficult (if they move back to their home community away from London).

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injuries

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Upper Body Exercise

Seated upper body circuit training program for 16-weeks. Frequency - 1 to 3 one-hour sessions per week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Upper Body Circuit Training Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

16 week seated upper body exercise for persons with Spinal Cord Injuries. Participants will attend 2-3 exercise sessions a week, sessions have a mix of SCI community members and inpatients.

Interventions

Upper Body Circuit Training Program

16 week seated upper body exercise for persons with Spinal Cord Injuries. Participants will attend 2-3 exercise sessions a week, sessions have a mix of SCI community members and inpatients.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Community:

• Chronic traumatic or non-traumatic SCI between level C6 and T10 >18 months post injury
• manual wheelchair as the primary mode of mobility
• no existing conditions that would make it unsafe to participate in an exercise program (e.g., fractures).
• Ability to understand and communicate in English.
• 18 years or older.

Inpatients:

• Chronic traumatic or non-traumatic SCI between level C6 and T10
• manual wheelchair as primary mode of mobility
• no existing conditions that would make it unsafe to participate in an exercise program (e.g., fractures).
• Ability to understand and communicate in English.
• 18 years or older.

Exclusion Criteria

• Power wheelchair users (Non manual wheelchairs)
• Have an existing condition that would make it unsafe to participate in an exercise program (e.g., fracture)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Dalton Wolfe

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Dalton Wolfe, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Central Contacts

Dalton Wolfe, PhD

Role: CONTACT

dwolfe@uwo.ca

5196854292 ext. 42957

Stephanie Marrocco, MSc

Role: CONTACT

stephanie.marrocco@sjhc.london.on.ca

5196854292 ext. 42631

Other Identifiers

113642

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id