Development of a perioperative nursing program to prevent skeletal muscle mass reduction associated with treatment of elderly patients with esophageal cancer
Description: We examined 33 patients with 28 males, a mean age of 65.2 and esophageal cancer scheduled for neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and surgery to clarify changes in the skeletal muscle mass, hand grip strength, walking speed, and number of utterances. Skeletal Muscle mass Index(SMI) after surgery was lower than those after NAC and before surgery. There were also significant decreases in the walking speed and hand grip strength (left) after surgery compared with before and after NAC and before surgery. Furthermore, the numbers of utterances before and after surgery were significantly lower than those before and after NAC.We examined 14 females with a mean age of 21 to clarify effect of the Tsubame Exercise when performed for 3 weeks. The walking speed and tongue pressure significantly increased, and trapezius elasticity and stiffness significantly decreased. The results suggest that performing the Tsubame Exercise from pre-NAC prevent a decreases of limbs muscular strength.
Amount: ¥10,140,000
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Investigator: Junko Fukada
Institution: Aichi Prefectural University
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 0
Funder award ID: 17H04441
OpenAlex ID: G2624545262