Recruiting

Battle Rope vs. Arm Bike

Sponsor:

Texas Woman's University

Code:

NCT03793595

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injury at T2 and Below

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Seated Battle Ropes Protocol

Seated Upper Extremity Arm Bike

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to compare energy expenditure and metabolic outcomes of a novel seated battle rope protocol to seated maximal ramped upper extremity ergometry protocol in subjects with spinal cord injury.

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injury at T2 and Below

Study ID

NCT03793595

Start date

Mar 20, 2019

Status verified date

Apr, 2021

Completion date

Jan, 2022

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan, 2022

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Spinal cord lesion T2 or below
  • Individuals with spinal cord injury for greater than six months
  • Utilize manual wheelchair for greater than 10 hours a day

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current complaints of spinal, lower extremity or upper extremity pain or musculoskeletal disorder that prevents the subject from performing repetitive upper extremity cycling or grasping and swinging the weighted ropes against the floor
  • A current diagnosis of a chronic or acute cardiovascular, metabolic, renal or pulmonary disease including use of a pacemaker
  • Anyone currently taking beta blocker medication
  • Anyone with blood pressure >140/90 at the time of testing or with in the 2 weeks prior to testing
  • Diagnosed sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait
  • Severe spasticity or joint contracture preventing subject from performing upper extremity cycling or swinging of weighted ropes
  • Subjects with current decubital ulcers
  • History of autonomic dysreflexia in the last 6 months
  • Require physician follow-up prior to starting exercise based on PAR-Q+ questionnaire

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Seated Battle Ropes Protocol

active comparator: Seated Upper Extremity Arm Bike

Interventions

Seated Battle Ropes Protocol

Participants will begin swinging the rope as previously described in the seated position using the double arm swing technique for 15 seconds at a cadence of 100 beats/ minutes with a 45 second rest break repeated 10 times.

Seated Upper Extremity Arm Bike

A modified Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) cycle test will be performed.

Primary outcome measure

  • Cardiorespiratory fitness as assessed by maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) [ Time Frame: about 10-15 minutes after start of the protocol ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Wayne A Brewer, PhD

713-794-2074wbrewer@twu.edu

Locations

Texas Woman's University

Recruiting

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Contacts

Wayne A Brewer, PhD

713-794-2074wbrewer@twu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Wayne Brewer, PhD, MPH

More Information

Sponsor

Texas Woman's University

Last update posted

Apr 19, 2021

Last verified

Apr, 2021

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Texas Woman's University on 2021-04-19.