Effect of light therapy (laser) in patients with respiratory disease
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseC08.381.495.389
- Registration Number
- RBR-5bv8rd
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade do Sagrado Coração
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Volunteers over 18 years of age; diagnosis of COPD with moderate to severe classification; clinically stable; who present symptoms of dyspnea due to small and medium effort.
Exclusion Criteria
Alcoholics; volunteers with cardiac pacemaker implantation; neurological disease; acute exacerbations of the disease requiring hospital admission or systemic corticosteroids in the 4 weeks prior to the study; regular exercise (more than 3 times a week) in the last three months.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome variables include: 1) pulmonary function indexes, obtained by spirometric maneuvers of slow vital capacity<br>(CVL), forced vital capacity (FVC) and maximal voluntary ventilation (VVMA); 2) thoracoabdominal mobility assessed by cirtometry; 3) Maximal respiratory pressures, obtained by means of manovacuometry; and 4) functional capacity assessed by means of the 6-min walk test.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Subjective perception of dyspnea and lower limb effort assessed during the 6-minute walk test.