Effect of Circuit Weight Training on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

NCT ID: NCT06936241

Last Updated: 2025-07-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 52 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-09-11
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-31

Brief Summary

The study is aimed at studying the effects of Circuit Weight Training (CWT) on functional capacity and quality of life in breast cancer patients.

Detailed Description

Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women in Egypt causing 22 percent of all cancer-related female deaths. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, accounting for nearly a quarter of all cancer cases globally.

With improvements in early detection, surgery, and adjuvant therapy for breast cancer, long-term survival and cure are becoming possible. Despite providing longer survival with early diagnosis of breast cancer, the treatment leaves sequelae with adverse effects such as influence on functional capacity, fatigue, depression, neuropathic lymphoedema, low immunity, and loss of flexibility. All of these effects end up affecting the quality of life (QoL), Imbalance, gait dysfunction, and falls may have particularly severe consequences in breast cancer survivors due to comorbidities increasing the risk of fall-related injury, secondary decline in physical activity, and subsequent functional decline.

Given the profound effects that imbalance, gait dysfunction, and falls have on functional independence, QOL, and long-term health and survivorship, the treatment or prevention of these symptoms is an essential component of cancer rehabilitation for all survivors.

Furthermore, the need for this study is developed from the lack of quantitative knowledge and information in the published studies about the effect of Circuit Weight Training (CWT) on functional capacity and quality of life in breast cancer patients.

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Circuit weight training and traditional physical therapy program

The participants will do Circuit Weight Training in addition to traditional physical therapy program for 8 weeks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Circuit weight training

Intervention Type: OTHER

The Circuit Training protocol will be performed as follows:

wall push-up, bridge on floor, single leg bridge, bird dog, windshield wiper, march in place, ball squat, squat with an overhead press, reverse pendulum, jumping rope, and spinal twist, 30-35 minutes, 3 times a week for 8 weeks

Traditional physical therapy program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participants will receive traditional physical therapy program in the form of therapeutic exercises to keep daily living activity by restoring the strength of flexors and abductors of the shoulder joint using the shoulder wheel and ladder. It will be performed 3 times per week for eight weeks

Traditional physical therapy program

The participants will receive traditional physical therapy program only for 8 weeks

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Traditional physical therapy program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participants will receive traditional physical therapy program in the form of therapeutic exercises to keep daily living activity by restoring the strength of flexors and abductors of the shoulder joint using the shoulder wheel and ladder. It will be performed 3 times per week for eight weeks

Interventions

Circuit weight training

The Circuit Training protocol will be performed as follows:

wall push-up, bridge on floor, single leg bridge, bird dog, windshield wiper, march in place, ball squat, squat with an overhead press, reverse pendulum, jumping rope, and spinal twist, 30-35 minutes, 3 times a week for 8 weeks

Intervention Type: OTHER

Traditional physical therapy program

The participants will receive traditional physical therapy program in the form of therapeutic exercises to keep daily living activity by restoring the strength of flexors and abductors of the shoulder joint using the shoulder wheel and ladder. It will be performed 3 times per week for eight weeks

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Female with age between 35-45.
• Body Mass Index (BMI) < 25.
• Patients diagnosed with non-metastatic (Stage 0-III) breast cancer.
• All patients who are treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients diagnosed with cancer metastasis.
• Patients diagnosed with diseases of the nervous system (Parkinson's disease, peripheral nerve palsy) skeletal system (inflammatory diseases, scoliosis >10 Cobb angle), or rheumatic diseases.
• Patients with any current visual impairment that affected their daily living, vestibular disorder, neurological disorder, cognitive disorder, and any further medical condition that would prohibit them from participating safely.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Alhasnaa Sayed Farouk Helal

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Maher H Ibrahim, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Cairo University

Heba A. Abdulghafar, Professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Cairo University

Locations

Alhasnaa Sayed Farouk

Giza, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

P.T.REC/012/005445

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id