Precision Exercise Program in Children With Malignant Hemopathies Undergoing Therapy and/or Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: The Sport Therapy Project

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

In the early years of life and during adolescence, physical activity is crucial for good development of motor skills. It is even more so for those children and young people who are forced to undergo anti-cancer therapies and therefore undergo long periods of hospitalization (often bedridden) and prolonged periods of physical inactivity. The research project Sport Therapy was born with the aim of demonstrating that, through targeted physical activity administered by the sports physician in collaboration with the pediatrician hematologist, it is possible to facilitate the full recovery of these patients, avoiding the high risk of chronic diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle and allowing them to better reintegrate, once healed, in their community of origin (school, sport and social relations). The research project Sport Therapy was born within the Maria Letizia Verga Center at the Pediatric Clinic of the University of Milan Bicocca, at the Foundation for the Mother and Her Child, San Gerardo Hospital in Monza. Every year, around 80 children and adolescents with leukemia, lymphoma or blood disorders leading to bone marrow transplantation are treated here.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 2
Maximum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Children with malignant hemopathies attending the Maria Letizia Verga Center

Locations
Other Locations
Italy
Maria Letizia Verga Center, Pediatric Clinic, University of Milan Bicocca, at the Foundation for the Mother and Her Child
RECRUITING
Monza
Contact Information
Primary
Francesca Lanfranconi, MD, PhD
francesca.lanfranconi@unimib.it
+39 0392336868
Backup
Adriana Balduzzi, MD, PhD
adriana.balduzzi@unimib.it
Time Frame
Start Date: 2017-04-03
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-04-03
Participants
Target number of participants: 380
Treatments
Experimental: Children with malignant hemopathies
Children with malignant hemopathies attending a precision exercise training
No_intervention: Healthy children
Healthy children
Sponsors
Collaborators: Comitato Maria Letizia Verga,Italy
Leads: University of Milano Bicocca

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov