Abstract
Background: Considering COVID-19 pandemic, self-isolation is recommended for preventive strategy in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Long-term social isolation and school closure may have adverse effects on physical health.
Aim: This study aimed to examine the effect of a 6-week online exercise protocol on peripheral muscle function of pediatric CF patients.
Methods: Thirty CF patients (age=11.16±3.02 years) were included in the study. Patients were allocated to either the telerehabilitation or control group. Exercise protocol was included exercises such as posture exercises, squat, crunch, oblique crunch, lunge. Online supervised exercise training was applied three times per week for six weeks in the telerehabilitation group. Same exercises were sent as an exercise brochure to the control group, and phone contacts were applied once a week to learn their session number. One session was lasted 30-45 minute. All patients were assessed for peripheral muscle function with the number of crunch repetitions, push-ups and squats before after the exercise training.
Results: Peripheral muscle function parameters were increased each group. Patients who had an online exercise training improvements in crunch, push-up and squat were increased higher than the control group (p=0.008, p=0.015, p=0.002, respectively).
Conclusions: Exercise training with online-supervised or follow-up is a beneficial effect on peripheral muscle function in CF patients. But this benefical effect is more in online-supervised exercise training. Exercise training programs can be applied with telerehabilitation approaches to decreased immobility due to social isolation in CF patients.
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2021; 58: Suppl. 65, PA1818.
This abstract was presented at the 2021 ERS International Congress, in session “Prediction of exacerbations in patients with COPD”.
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