Abdominal Surgery
Conditions
Keywords
abdominal aorta surgery, Physical Training, backward walking, physiotherapy
Brief summary
Summary Question: Does backward walking offer additional therapeutic value in patients after aortic aneurysm surgery? Participants: The study of backward walking as an addictive physiotherapy procedure was conducted in the group of 65 patients who underwent abdominal aorta surgery. The patients were randomly divided into three subgroups and three various models of physiotherapy were applied. Control group has only routine physiotherapy since therapeutic group I and II have also walking exercises forward in group I and backward in group II respectively.
Interventions
PROCEDUREforward walking
comparison forward walking vs backward walking in the physiotherapy after after abdominal surgery
PROCEDUREbackward walking
physiotherapy with use a backward walking type of physiotherapy
Sponsors
Medical University of Silesia
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
MALE
Age
65 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm * Age 65-75 years * Male sex * Stable cardiologic status * Absence of neurological disorders * Non-symptomatic aneurysm - non-ruptured * No pain complaints * No motion system impairments
Exclusion criteria
* Patients with neurological disorders * Unstable coronary heart disease symptomatic aortic aneurysm - dissecans aneurysm * Having difficulty in locomotion * Having contradiction for starting physical training during the first or second day after surgery * Patients with psychiatric disease * Lack of patient's compliance with physiotherapist; AND * Other medical contraindications
Outcome results
None listed