Gait patterns in patients with COPD
- Conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON22446
- Lead Sponsor
- CIRO+, Centre of expertise for chronic organ failure
- Brief Summary
n/a
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
Patients:
COPD, aged between 40-85 years, referral for assessment in CIRO+, clinically stable
Controls:
aged between 20-85 years
Exclusion Criteria
Neuromuscular co-morbidities, subjects who are unable to walk without walking aids, subjects with open wound, medical history of asthma, lung cancer, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, lung fibrosis, or any other significant respiratory disease; having undergone lung surgery, or history of orthopaedic ailments which could affect the walking pattern.
Controls: any significant respiratory disease or chronic heart failure.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - 6MWD<br>- Variability of Centre of Mass in medio lateral direction
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Variability of COM in anterior-posterior (COMAP) and vertical (COMV) direction. <br>- Centre of Pressure (COP) in medio-lateral, anterior-posterior and vertical direction, respectively COPML, COPAP, COPV.<br>- Average walking speed <br>- Step length <br>- Stride length <br>- Cadence <br>- Number of stops<br>- Assessment parameters