Walking Exercise Sustainability Through Telehealth for Veterans With Lower-limb Amputation

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Conditions studied: Lower-Limb Amputation

In brief

Despite recent advances in physical rehabilitation, Veterans with lower-limb amputation have poor long-term outcomes, including severely limited functional capacity and high levels of disability. Such poor outcomes are compounded by a lack of exercise participation over time, even with use of lower-limb prostheses. There is a clear need to advance current rehabilitation strategies to better promote sustained exercise following lower-limb amputation. To address this need, the study will determine the potential of a walking exercise self-management program to achieve sustained exercise participation. The 18-month intervention is focused on helping Veterans reduce habitual sedentary behavior through a remote exercise behavior-change intervention that includes multiple clinical disciplines, individualized exercise self-management training, and peer support. This innovative approach shifts the conventional rehabilitation paradigm to specifically target life-long exercise sustainability and remove an underlying cause of disability for Veterans with lower-limb amputation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05412550

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

95

Starts

2022-11-01

Expected to finish

2026-10-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-24

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Unilateral or bilateral lower-limb amputation (transmetatarsal to him disarticulation, traumatic or non-traumatic etiology)
• Ability to walk two minutes without seated rest using prosthesis and assistive device if needed
• Living without assistance for basic activities of daily living

You may not qualify if…

• Congenital or cancer-related amputation
• Unstable heart condition including:
• unstable angina
• uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmia
• acute myocarditis
• acute pericarditis
• Acute systemic infection
• Prisoner
• Mild cognitive impairment
• Active cancer treatment
• Discretion of PI to exclude patients who are determined to be unsafe and/or inappropriate to participate

Where it is running

• Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO — Aurora, Colorado, United States

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