Continuous Versus Interval Walking Training in Patients With COPD - a Pilot Study

Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease

Treatments: Device: Treadmill; Other: walking training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02209207

Walking trial 2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the effects of interval walking training versus continuous walking training in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Patients will be recruited during a 3-week inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program and will be randomized to one of the two intervention groups. All walking training sessions will be performed on the same treadmill. Walking intensity in the continuous walking group will be 60 percent of the average speed of the 6-minute walking test. Patients in the interval training group will perform high intensity intervals at 120% of the 6-minute walking test speed for 60 seconds alternating with 60 seconds of rest. The total exercise duration will be progressively increased from 10 to 32 minutes.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD stage III or IV according to the Global Initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease [GOLD]
• stationary patient in the Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land

Exclusion criteria

• acute, severe exacerbation of COPD
• failure to comply with study process

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Continuous walking training

Active Comparator group

Description:

n=10 patients with COPD Walking intensity 60 percent of 6-minute walking test speed

Treatment:

Other: walking training

Device: Treadmill

Interval walking training

Active Comparator group

Description:

n=10 patients with COPD Walking intensity 120 percent of 6-minute walking test speed for 1 minute alternating with 1 minute of rest

Treatment:

Other: walking training

Device: Treadmill