Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Interventions: Other: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Registration Number: NCT01930526
• Lead Sponsor: West Park Healthcare Centre

Brief Summary

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) with supervised exercise training is a key part of care for patients with chronic lung disease (COPD). Patients can improve their shortness of breath, walking distance and quality of life. However, many patients do not improve their overall fitness. They are too breathless to train at a high enough intensity. In a laboratory training study, patients with COPD improved their overall fitness by using single leg cycling. Despite this knowledge, single leg cycling has not been used clinically. The objective of this project is to use and assess single leg cycling in a clinical setting. Single leg cycling can be incorporated into a clinical service (replacing traditional two legged cycling) as the predominant aerobic training strategy, resulting in improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness (peak oxygen uptake).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-07
• Primary Completion: 2012-11
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-23
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-29
• Study Completion: 2015-10
• Status Verified: 2016-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-01-04
• Last Update Posted: 2016-01-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients with COPD referred for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Exclusion Criteria

• Unstable cardiac disease
• any neurological or orthopaedic condition that would make cycling difficult

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pulmonary Rehabilitation	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	Patients will undergo the usual pulmonary rehabilitation programme but instead of two-legged cycling they will undergo single leg cycling where they cycle with one leg for 10-15mins and then the other in the same session.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in peak oxygen uptake achieved by incremental cycle ergometry	Measured at the end of an average of eight weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation compared to baseline	A full incremental cardiopulmonary exercise test will be performed on a cycle ergometer to symptom limitation with expiratory gas analysis.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

West Park Healthcare Centre; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada