Effectiveness of breathing muscle training for asthmatics
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Bronchial Asthma
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2013/05/003610
- Lead Sponsor
- Institutional Review Board
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 76
Inclusion Criteria
1. Diagnosis of mild to severe asthma according to GINA guidelines
2. Age 30 to 65 years
3. Symptomatic â?? Dyspnoea
4. Patients referred by the Physicians for Inspiratory muscle training
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients who are deemed to be too sick to perform the 6 min walk test or other study related tests.
2. The presence of a significant comorbid disease that might interfere with the training process or place the patient at undue risk for exercise training
3.Inspiratory muscle training within the past 12 months.
4.Subjects unwilling to give informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PI max-Measurement of the maximum static Inspiratory pressure that a subject can generate at the mouth (PImax) is a simple way to gauge inspiratory muscle strengthTimepoint: PI max-6 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PE max,6 minute walk test,Asthma Control test,St.George Respiratory Disease QuestionnaireTimepoint: 6 weeks