Wheelchair users get Heart-Healthy with live online exercise
NCT ID NCT05606432
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing whether a 24-week live telehealth exercise program, set to music and tailored to individual abilities, can improve cardiometabolic health in 132 adult wheelchair users. The program focuses on reducing risk factors like waist size, blood sugar, and cholesterol. A 12-week follow-up will check if gains last.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Movement-to-Music exercise program
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer an effective, home-based exercise program to help wheelchair users improve their heart health and manage conditions like high cholesterol or blood pressure.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small trial (132 people) and the exercise program is new. Results may not apply to all wheelchair users, and long-term benefits are uncertain.
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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 132 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2023
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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 89 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: 1. full-time or part-time use of a wheelchair device (manual wheelchair, power wheelchair, electric scooter) self-reported as the primary means of mobility 2. ≥ 2 cardiometabolic risk factor(s), 3. no contraindication to exercise as approved by a physician's medical clearance to exercise 4. age ≥18 years 5. able to use arms to exercise 6. obtaining \< 90 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week in the last month 7. not enrolled in a structured exercise program in the past 6 months 8. able to converse and read in English. Exclusion Criteria: 1. medically unstable to perform home exercise as determined by their physician 2. high-level tetraplegia and unable to use arms to exercise 3. no internet access was determined via self-report and internet speed test.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The University of Alabama at Birmingahm
RECRUITINGBirmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States