CompletedNot Applicable

Carer Involvement in Exercises for People With Acquired Brain Injury.

United Kingdom20 participantsStarted 2024-06-03

Plain-language summary

Increasing the amount of exercises completed has been shown to help recovery for people after a brain injury. This study will explore if providing extra training of exercises prescribed to a patient and carer team, will allow more practice of these exercises, better abilities to move and balance, and to assess if carer confidence changes with doing this. It is a repeated case design in the in-patient acute Neurosciences setting at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust (NNUH).

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion * Adults with acquired brain injury on NNUH Neurosciences Unit with a carer physically able to complete exercises with the patient. * Patient to be able to follow simple commands (1 stage) for exercise intervention. * Patient able to consent along with their relative together to participation in the study. Exclusion: * Discharge plan for ESD from initial assessment with no care package required due to too short timeframe of being an acute in-patient. * Patient's with severe cognitive - communication deficits meaning they cannot follow 1 stage command for exercises or consent to the study. * Severe pain, joint abnormality or spasticity limiting participation in exercise programme. * Carer/relative not able to physically help the patient with the required exercises or carer/relative not able to consent to the study.

What they're measuring

Log of exercise repetitions

Timeframe: Pre and post intervention: 4 weeks or at point of discharge from acute Trust.

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06952595

SponsorNorfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2024-08-23