Downhill Walking Training in COPD
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Interventions
- Other: Downhill walking trainingOther: Conventional walking training
- Registration Number
- NCT02113748
- Lead Sponsor
- KU Leuven
- 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 42
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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Downhill walking training Downhill walking training Exercise training including treadmill walking with a negative inclination. Conventional walking training Conventional walking training Exercise training including treadmill walking without inclination. Possible to progress training intensity with positive inclinations.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method changes in 6-minute walking distance changes from baseline to Week 12
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Hospitals Leuven
🇧🇪Leuven, Vl-Brabant, Belgium