Phone-Based workout may keep heart patients on their feet

NCT ID NCT05826587

Prevention Sponsor: Mayo Clinic Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This study tests whether a 6-week home exercise program delivered through a smartphone app can improve balance, muscle strength, and confidence in cardiac rehabilitation patients. Researchers will enroll 128 participants to see if the program reduces fall risk and improves quality of life. The exercises are tailored to each person's ability and can be done at home with minimal equipment.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance: home-based exercise program delivered via mobile health app
What this could lead to: If it works, this could provide a simple, at-home way to help cardiac rehab patients reduce their risk of falling and improve daily function.
What could go wrong: This is a small, early-stage trial with only 128 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The program relies on patients having a smartphone and following the exercises correctly at home.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

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

About 128 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Oct 2023

Expected to finish

Dec 2026

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

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

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

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: * All patients referred to and who undergo early outpatient CR irrespective of diagnosis will be eligible for the study. * All participants must have access to a smart mobile device. Exclusion Criteria: * Advanced dementia. * Wheelchair bound. * Vision loss. * Patients that underwent sternotomy within 12-weeks will be excluded from the upper body muscular strength/power assessment and associated upper body training. At the time of enrollment into CR, balance, upper body muscular fitness, and lower body muscular fitness will be assessed in each subject before they are randomized at a 1:1 allocation ratio into one of two parallel groups: * Standard early outpatient center-based supervised CR only (control; CR); or * Early outpatient center-based supervised CR plus individualized, home-based, m-Health delivered physical function training (experimental group; CR+PFt). Balance, upper body muscular fitness, and lower body muscular fitness and gait will be reassessed in each participant after 5-to-6 weeks of CR and again upon completion of the CR program. Patient reported measures of fall risk will be measured at baseline with the Stop Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) tool kit. Balance confidence, health-related quality of life, physical activity level, and functional capacity will be evaluated before and after CR and CR+PFt using the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, the Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Information Project (COOP) charts, and the Duke Activity Status Index (DASI).

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Phone-Based workout may keep heart patients on their feet

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