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Graduated exercise training and progressive resistance training in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled pilot study

Gordon, Brett A, Knapman, Leona M, Lubitz, Lionel·2010·Clinical Rehabilitation
DOI 10.1177/0269215510371429
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Objective: To investigate the differential effects of aerobic graded exercise and progressive resistance training on exercise tolerance, fatigue and quality of life in adolescent patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Design: Single-blind, randomized controlled pilot trial. Setting: A major metropolitan hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Subjects: Twenty-two adolescents aged 13—18 years diagnosed with CFS and admitted to the inpatient chronic fatigue rehabilitation programme. Intervention: Patients were randomized to either graded aerobic exercise training or a progressive resistance training programme, for five days/week for four weeks. The graded aerobic training consisted of 20—40 minutes of stationary cycling and treadmill exercise. The progressive resistance training involved 16 exercises performed with single set, moderate load and high repetitions. Main measures: Exercise tolerance (time to fatigue) measured on a graded sub-maximal treadmill test, metabolic equivalents and quality of life, along with muscular strength (maximium push-ups) and endurance (sit-to-stand) and questionnaires evaluating depressive symptoms and fatigue severity. Results: No intervention was significantly better than the other for any outcome. However, physical capacity and quality of life significantly improved in both groups, while fatigue severity and symptoms of depression improved only with aerobic training. Conclusions: Resistance and aerobic training resulted in similar changes to physical capacity, quality of life and fatigue severity. Generally, patients who completed resistance training or aerobic training experienced significant improvements in outcomes from baseline when they entered the programme. Whether these improvements can be attributed to the treatment is unknown.

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  • Adolescents with mental or physical diseases such as obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, may differ from ordinary adolescents in their exercise tolerance.

    “Adolescents with mental or physical diseases such as obesity [81], chronic fatigue syndrome [82], attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [83], may differ from ordinary adolescents in their exercise tolerance.”

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Authors
Gordon, B. A., Knapman, L. M., & Lubitz, L.
Affiliations
  • Austin Health (AU)
  • Physiotherapy Department, Austin Health
  • Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
Corresponding author
Gordon, Brett A
ORCID
Gordon, Brett A
Venue
Clinical Rehabilitation
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2010-07-06
Volume
24
Issue
12
Pages
1072-1079
ISSN
  • 0269-2155 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0873
DOI
10.1177/0269215510371429
OpenAlex
W2135552648
Cited by
74
References
28
Citations by year
2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 3
FWCI
2.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Clinical Rehabilitation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Keywords
chronic fatigue syndrome, adolescents, progressive resistance training, aerobic exercise, exercise tolerance, fatigue severity, quality of life, muscle strength, endurance, depressive symptoms, inpatient rehabilitation
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Depression, Humans, Pilot Projects, Quality of Life, Victoria, Exercise, Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic, Multivariate Analysis, Single-Blind Method, Exercise Tolerance, Resistance Training

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