Balance Training for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Samantha Harrison

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Balance training

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02080442

13-o11-WP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will involve direct knowledge translation of a laboratory-based study of balance training for patients with COPD, first to the investigators PR program and then, after disseminating the results, this approach could be used to impact on clinical practice in any PR program.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of COPD
• Self-report of decline in balance or fall in the last 5 years or a recent near fall
• Smoking history greater than 10 pack years
• Are able to provide written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• An inability to communicate because of language skills, hearing or cognitive impairment
• Evidence of a neurological or musculoskeletal condition that severely limits mobility and postural control (e.g., cerebrovascular accident, advanced Parkinson's disease, amputation).

Trial design

19 participants in 1 patient group

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatment:

Other: Balance training