Respiratory Muscle Exercise Training in COPD Patients
- Conditions
- COPD
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Multi-respiratory muscle training
- Registration Number
- NCT01747694
- Lead Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
- Brief Summary
COPD patients often suffer from dyspnea and exercise intolerance which lower their quality of life.The aim of this proposed study is to examine the effectiveness of multi-respiratory muscle training on respiratory function of COPD patients.
- Detailed Description
The respiratory muscle training is an important part of pulmonary rehabilitation. Subjects will be recruited from the chest medicine clinic of a medical center in Northern Taiwan, randomly assigned to control and experimental groups by severity status for a 12-week muscle training intervention.The outcome measures will be performed to evaluate respiratory function, depression status and quality of life at baseline, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of training.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
- Clinical diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Must be stable
- Never participate in respiratory muscle trainig program
- Infection or acute excerbation condition
- Abdominal surgical
- Severe neuromuscular, cardiac disease or dementia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Multi-respiratory muscle training Multi-respiratory muscle training Patients will perform multi-repiratory muscle training programe for 12 weeks
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PE max three months maximal strength of expiratory muscle
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PI max three months maximal strength of inspiratory muscle
6MWT three months six-minute walking test
MVV three months maximal voluntary volume
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
🇨🇳Taoyuan, Taiwan