Simple home workouts may boost strength before liver transplant
NCT ID NCT02567591
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested whether a personalized home exercise program (walking three times a week and strength training with elastic bands twice a week) could improve fitness and strength in 30 adults waiting for a liver transplant. The goal was to see if better fitness before surgery could lead to shorter hospital stays and better recovery. The program lasted 12 weeks, and researchers measured aerobic capacity, walking distance, and muscle strength.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- personalized home exercise program (walking and strength training with elastic bands)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could show that simple home exercise before liver transplant helps patients get stronger and recover faster after surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small, early study with only 30 participants. Results may not apply to everyone, and exercise may be hard for very sick patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2016
- Finished
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Mar 2021
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Males and females between 18 and 70 years of age, * Signed informed consent, * Medical indication to LT whatever the cause of the liver disease Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to understand the instructions of the trial, * Patients who are subject to a court protection, wardship or guardianship order, * Uncontrolled cardiac disease and ventricular ejection fraction (vef) \< 50 %, * Any other serious conditions which are not stabilized and in which physical exercise is contra-indicated, * Pregnancy or suckling, * Patients transplanted in extreme emergency.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Limoges Hospital
Limoges, 87 042, France
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Tours hospital
Tours, France
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