Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD
- Conditions
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Interventions
- Procedure: acupuncture
- Registration Number
- NCT03767140
- Lead Sponsor
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
- Brief Summary
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is nowadays the 4th cause of death in the world and it´s expected to become the 3rd cause of death in 2020 and the majority cause of morbidity. Besides that, in Portugal COPD patients become more dependents each day.
Acupuncture as a reflex therapy it´s carried out through a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnose that will allowed to identify the acupoints.
The investigators are interested in to assess acupuncture efficacy on physical exercise tolerance in COPD patients.An experimental, controlled, randomized, double blind study was done. Patients were recruited according TCM diagnose to optimize potential therapeutic effects.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 29
- COPD GOLD III,IV;
- able to walk;
- Informed consent signed;
- stable medication during last 3 days
- exacerbation during 3 months;
- Chinese diagnose opening principle;
- blood pressure "90"180 mmhg/ "100mmhg; respiratory rate "10"30 cpm
- smoker;
- metastasis;
- hepatic,
- renal or cardiovascular disease;
- pulmonary hypertension;
- COPD symptoms exacerbation during the therapy;
- previous acupuncture treatments;
- unstable vital signs;
- pulmonary rehabilitation in the last 6 months;
- needle phobia.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description sham acupuncture acupuncture False acupuncture treatment using not acupuncture points Verum acupucnture acupuncture Real acupuncture treatment
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method six minute walk test (6MWT) 6 minutes distance walked (metres)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Rating of perceived exertion (Borg Scale) 6 minutes during 6MWT
Oxygen peripheral saturation (SPO2) 6 minutes pulse oximeter
Blood pressure 6 minutes measure at end of 6MWT
heart rate 6 minutes at end of 6MWT
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Carla Manuela Loureiro Barros
🇵🇹Marco de Canaveses, Porto, Portugal