NCT03409575

Efficacy of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Geriatric Population

Completed NA Last updated 22 March 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing 5 minutes stimulation in Age-Related Atrophy in 44 participants. Completed in 21 March 2018.

Timeline

5 February 2018

Primary endpoint
16 March 2018

21 March 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Sevim ACARÖZ CANDAN
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	44
Start date	5 February 2018
Primary completion	16 March 2018
Estimated completion	21 March 2018
Sites	2 locations across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• 5 minutes stimulation
• 10 minutes stimulation

Conditions studied

• Age-Related Atrophy — all drugs for Age-Related Atrophy →
• Physical Disorder — all drugs for Physical Disorder →

Sponsor

Sevim ACARÖZ CANDAN

Who can join

Adults 65 to 95, any sex, with Age-Related Atrophy or Physical Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The decline in physical function and strength was seen by the nature of aging. The older adults often complain of fatigue. For these reasons, proper rehabilitation approaches should be used to ensure healthy life and to keep the quality of life at the highest possible level by minimizing the decline seen with aging process. Exercise programs and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) are applied in rehabilitation to restore muscular strength and improve physical performance. NMES is used to prevent the atrophy of nonuse, to increase joint range of motion, to re-educate muscle, to regulate spasticity, to replace orthosis, to improve motor involvement of muscle fibers. Despite the use of NMES for strengthening in the clinics, the application parameters and methods should be discussed. The frequency, the pulse duration, the on / off time, the amplitude, the waveform of the current and the application time vary between the studies. For geriatric populations, it is recommended that the highest intensity, biphasic symmetrical currents with a frequency in the range of 50-100 Hz, for 100-400 μs, can be pulsed for ideal amplification. NMES is usually practiced by physiotherapists continuously for 20 minutes in to strengthen. However, in recent studies, it has been shown that continuous application of a single-session 100 Hz current for 20 minutes leads to intense fatigue and after a while the effect of the strengthening of the current has been removed. Therefore, intermittent applications have been proposed instead of continuous applications for 20 minutes. Considering the fragility and the presence of sarcopenia in the geriatric population, NMES applications should be preferred in which rest periods are given instead of continuous application for 20 minutes. In the literature, there is no study showing the effect of NMES on Quadriceps strength, fatigue and physical function by using quadriceps stimulation for 20 minutes using different stimulation periods.Therefore, in this study, will be investigated the possible effects of two different methods of NMES on Quadriceps strength, fatigue and physical function.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.