Combined Home Exercise Is More Effective Than Range-of-Motion Home Exercise in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 3
Comparison of the exercise tolerance variables at the baseline and after 3-month exercise between combined home exercise (COMB) group and range-of-motion home exercise (ROM) group.
Variables
COMB group ( = 9)
ROM group ( = 10)
Both groups
Baseline mean (SD)
Postexercise mean (SD)
Within-group value
Baseline mean (SD)
Postexercise mean (SD)
Within-group † value
Between-groups ‡ value
Resting state
HR (beats/min)
77.3 ± 8.7
82.6 ± 11.0
0.173
75.0 ± 7.4
81.3 ± 10.5
0.036
0.870
SBP (mmHg)
120.0 ± 8.7
113.9 ± 6.6
0.155
120.2 ± 13.6
110.6 ± 12.6
0.139
0.595
DBP (mmHg)
73.4 ± 7.4
72.6 ± 4.1
0.905
72.8 ± 7.5
73.1 ± 10.1
0.959
0.775
SpO2%
96.1 ± 0.8
96.0 ± 0.9
0.655
95.9 ± 1.3
95.9 ± 1.3
1.000
0.931
Peak response
O2 (mL/kg/min)
20.4 ± 4.2
22.9 ± 4.2
0.008
20.1 ± 5.5
17.9 ± 4.3
0.032
0.001
O2% of standard
53.3 ± 8.0
60.1 ± 8.0
0.008
56.2 ± 10.7
50.7 ± 9.1
0.024
0.001
MET
5.8 ± 1.2
6.5 ± 1.2
0.008
5.7 ± 1.6
5.1 ± 1.2
0.032
0.001
Work (W)
124.3 ± 22.2
131.3 ± 31.8
0.138
118.4 ± 34.2
111.4 ± 30.0
0.139
0.055
O2 pulse
8.5 ± 2.4
9.0 ± 2.3
0.075
8.3 ± 2.3
7.9 ± 2.2
0.221
0.027
HR (beats/min)
155.1 ± 14.2
162.6 ± 16.4
0.033
152.7 ± 17.2
147.7 ± 21.6
0.474
0.060
SBP (mmHg)
177.0 ± 26.2
178.1 ± 16.7
0.906
182.9 ± 21.7
179.4 ± 20.5
0.221
0.806
DBP (mmHg)
93.9 ± 6.3
97.3 ± 10.1
0.259
95.0 ± 9.6
98.1 ± 12.3
0.507
0.712
RER
1.09 ± 0.9
1.07 ± 0.11
0.261
1.08 ± 0.3
1.06 ± 0.05
0.358
0.967
Ventilatory threshold
O2 (mL/kg/min)
11.0 ± 2.5
12.3 ± 2.2
0.021
11.8 ± 2.8
11.2 ± 3.4
0.415
0.041
MET
3.2 ± 0.7
3.5 ± 0.6
0.021
3.4 ± 0.9
3.2 ± 1.0
0.414
0.049
Work (W)
68.2 ± 24.7
69.7 ± 22.8
0.285
64.4 ± 20.6
60.8 ± 26.0
0.359
0.252
HR (beats/min)
117.8 ± 10.5
123.8 ± 15.0
0.037
119.2 ± 13.6
117.0 ± 18.8
0.541
0.093
HR: heart rate; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; SpO2: peripheral oxygen saturation; O2: oxygen uptake; O2% of standard: ratio in percentage of oxygen consumption over a standard oxygen uptake; RER: respiratory exchange ratio; MET: metabolic equivalent. values for differences in the baseline data between the COMB and the ROM groups; values for differences in the postexercise data between the COMB and the ROM groups; values for differences in the changed score between the baseline and the postexercise data between the COMB and the ROM groups.
