NCT06079697Completed
An Exercise Prehabilitation Intervention for Improving Mobility and Recovery Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Cancer Surgery
The Effect of Exercise Prehabilitation on Post-Operative Recovery After Head and Neck Cancer Surgery
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This clinical trial evaluates a prehabilitation exercise intervention for improving mobility and recovery outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for head and neck cancer. Prehabilitation focuses on optimizing health before surgery in order to improve outcomes after surgery. Prehabilitation may include aspects of nutrition, exercise, mental health, or a combination of these. Exercise has been proven to improve anxiety, depression, fatigue, health related quality of life, and physical function among patients undergoing cancer treatment, as well as cancer survivors. The prehabilitation exercise intervention being studied includes a daily walking program, sit-to-stand training, and standing therapeutic exercises before patients undergo surgery. Receiving this prehabilitation exercise intervention prior to surgery may improve mobility and recovery outcomes in patients after surgery for head and neck cancer.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 52 (actual)
- First submitted
- 28 Sept 2023
- Start date
- 1 Feb 2024
- Primary completion date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06079697
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 52
- From 1 Feb 2024 to the primary completion date, 15 Jul 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Social or psychiatric conditions that may interfere with compliance
- Further exclusion criteria may be applied due to conditions that may impact the ability to safely exercise as well as utilize the Fitbit devices:
- Symptoms of or ongoing work-up for unstable angina, uncontrolled tachyarrhythmias, decompensated heart failure, severe aortic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, uncontrolled hypertension (HTN), uncontrolled pulmonary HTN or uncontrolled asthma
- History of chest pain, dizziness or syncope with exercise
Other
- Non-English speaking
- Planned postoperative admission to the intensive care unit (ICU)
- Bony metastases to the spine or extremities
- Falls in the last year
- Cognitive impairments limiting safety or ability to use technology
- Impaired mobility requiring the use of assistive devices, such as use of a walker or wheelchair at baseline
- Isolation precautions, as they would not be allowed to ambulate on a patient floor post-operatively
Who the study is looking for
- Older than 18 years of age and younger than 89 years of age. Both men and women and members of all races and ethnic groups may be included
- Planned to undergo major head and neck cancer surgery with free tissue transfer reconstruction at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery with an expected length of stay (LOS) of 3 days or more
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
Age in the registry: 18 years to 89 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Portland | United States | Unknown status |
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