60
Participants
Start Date
July 1, 2013
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2014
Study Completion Date
September 1, 2019
Resistance training
Usual physiotherapy care and twice weekly tailored and progressive resistance lower limb exercises Circuit-type format, sessions will last 35 minutes and will include a warm-up and cool-down period. Exercises tailored to each patient and will use ankle weights as the resistance, using 65-75% of their 1-Repetition Maximum. Intervention will last for 6 weeks.
Usual care
Standard inpatient 'usual care' physiotherapy
Physiotherapy Department, St James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland, Dublin
St. James's Hospital, Ireland
OTHER
Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
OTHER