Clinical trials: Preoperative Physical Exercise Training
Frail Elderly Syndrome
Home-based Prehabilitation for Elderly Patients
As a consequence of the increasing life expectancy hospitals are seeing a growing number of elderly patients undergoing elective surgery.
- Trial name
- TRAilty (NCT03964363)
- Testing
- Unsupervised home-based physical prehabilitation
- Where
- 3 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 512 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Sarcopenia, Aged
HIT Training in the Frail Elderly.
This pilot study aims to investigate whether high intensity interval training can result in rapid improvements in physical fitness amongst the frail elderly (over 70 years old).
- Conditions
- Sarcopenia, Aged, Exercise, Preoperative Care
- Trial name
- eHIT (NCT03138265)
- Testing
- HIIT Device: ergometer
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Interval Training, Pre Operative Exercise
HIT in the Healthy Elderly Population
It is widely known that exercise improves general fitness and that fitter patients recover more easily from illness and surgery.
- Conditions
- Interval Training, Pre Operative Exercise, Prehabilitation, Elderly
- Trial name
- HIT (NCT02167191)
- Testing
- HIT
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham