At a glance
ClinicalIndex Comparison Record- ✓Age >65 years
- ✓Attended Memory Clinic at the RICE Centre in Bath
- ✓MMSE score ≥20 (preserved cognitive function)
- ✓SPPB score 3–8 with no component scoring 0 (low-to-moderate physical function)
- ✕Comorbidities preventing safe participation (severe breathlessness, pain, psychosis, Parkinson's, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, severe neurological disease)
- ✕History of bone, joint, neuromuscular problems, or current musculoskeletal injury that would worsen with exercise or prevent participation
- ✕Contraindications to exercise including chest pain, dizziness, loss of consciousness, or physician restriction on activity
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The Acceptability of Exercise Snacking to Improve Leg Strength in Memory Clinic Outpatients: a Pilot Study
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Exercise Snacking for Acceptability of an Exercise Intervention. Completed, enrolled 21 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
As we age, muscles can become progressively weaker to the point that tasks of daily living cannot be carried out safely. However, regular resistance exercise training has been shown to maintain and even increase muscle strength in older adults. Previous research has identified a homebased, non-loaded, lower limb only, 'exercise snacking' model that does not require exercise equipment or supervision as a viable alternative exercise strategy to traditional resistance exercise, with potential to improve leg muscle strength in healthy older adults. This approach has been shown to be feasible and acceptable to general healthy older adult population, however this approach to exercise focussed on improving strength has not been considered in a clinical population. This research seeks to investigate the acceptability of 28 days of homebased exercise snacking in outpatients with attending the memory clinic at the Research Institute for Care of the Elderly (RICE) Centre in Bath, UK, with diagnosis limited to mild cognitive impairment only. This study will improve understanding of how zero-cost exercise strategies to potentially improve muscle function and delay frailty could be incorporated in daily routines of older adults.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Each bout of exercise snacking consists of 5 exercise. Each exercise is performed for one minute, with aim of completing as many repetitions as possible of that exercise in that minute. One minute of rest is observed between each exercise of the exercise snack. The five exercises are sit-to-stand from a chair, seated overhead arm raises, march on the spot, seated arm raises and shoulder touches, and seated calf raises. The sit-to-stand exercise is always performed first, with the number of repetitions achieved recorded, and subsequent exercises performed in any order without recording of repetitions.