Cardiac Rehabilitation Mobile-Health Fall Risk Prevention Intervention
Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
The purpose of this research is to see if taking part in a structured exercise plan that is designed to improve balance and muscle strength and one that can done at home helps to improve the ability to perform standard physical tasks, confidence in balance, and health-related quality-of-life
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * All patients referred to and who undergo early outpatient CR irrespective of diagnosis will be eligible for the study. * All participants must have access to a smart mobile device. Exclusion Criteria: * Advanced dementia. * Wheelchair bound. * Vision loss. * Patients that underwent sternotomy within 12-weeks will be excluded from the upper body muscular strength/power assessment and associated upper body training. At the time of enrollment into CR, balance, upper body muscular fitness, and lower body muscular fitness will be assessed in each subject before they are randomized at a 1:1 allocation ratio into one of two parallel groups: * Standard early outpatient center-based supervised CR only (control; CR); or * Early outpatient center-based supervised CR plus individualized, home-based, m-Health delivered physical function training (experimental group; CR+PFt). Balance, upper body muscular fitness, and lower body muscular fitness and gait will be reassessed in ea