Home-Based Exercise Enhances Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Objective: To assess the influence of a home-based exercise intervention on indices of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Design: This was a randomized controlled trial (HOMEX-SCI; ISRCTN57096451). After baseline laboratory testing and a week of free-living physical activity monitoring, eligible participants were randomly assigned (2:1 allocation ratio) to a home-based moderate-intensity upper-body exercise intervention group (INT, n = 13), or a lifestyle maintenance control group (CON, n = 8), for 6 weeks. Setting: Home-based with short laboratory visits immediately before and after the intervention/control period. Participants: Inactive participants (N = 21) with chronic (> lyr) SCI (injury level