NCT02113748UnknownNot Applicable
Downhill Walking to Enhance Training Effects in Patients With COPD
Conditions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
- Enrollment
- 42
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- changes in 6-minute walking distance
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This randomized control trial will investigate whether a modality that generates more contractile muscle fatigue with lower ventilatory requirements render better results after a 12-week exercise training program in subjects with COPD.
Subjects will be randomized to either exercise in a training program including downhill walking or to exercise in a training program including conventional walking.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients with a primary diagnosis of COPD according to internationally accepted guidelines
- •Patients referred to the outpatient PR program of Gasthuisberg University Hospital(Leuven, Belgium)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Any underlying disease or musculoskeletal limitation that could impair the ability to perform any of the exercise training modalities
- •Absence of exacerbations in the previous month before entering the present study
- •Patients included on the waiting list for lung transplantation
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
changes in 6-minute walking distance
Time Frame: changes from baseline to Week 12
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Thierry Troosters
Prof.
KU Leuven
Study Sites (2)
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