Effects of BBT Versus Diaphragmatic Breathing on Exercise Capacity and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breathing Technique

Treatments: Other: Diaphragmatic breathing technique.; Other: Buteyko breathing technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05947227

REC/RCR & AHS/23/0311

Details and patient eligibility

About

Group A will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Buteyko breathing technique Group-B will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Diaphragmatic breathing technique. Patients will perform the technique 5 times a weeks for 8weeks and treatment evaluation will be done after 8 weeks

Full description

A randomized clinical trial will be conducted at Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore through convenience sampling technique on 48 patients which will be allocated through simple random sampling through sealed enveloped into group A and group B. Pre-treatment values of patients exercise capacity will be recorded by 6MWT/6MWD- 6 minute walk test/ 6 minutes' walk distance and patients quality of life through St George respiratory questionnaire as primary outcomes while oxygen saturation, heart rate will be measured by pulse oximtery during 6MWT as secondary outcomes. Group A will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Buteyko breathing technique Group-B will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Diaphragmatic breathing technique. Patients will perform the technique 5 times a weeks for 8weeks and treatment evaluation will be done after 8 weeks.

Data will be analyzed using SPSS software version 25.After assessing normality of data by Shapiro-Wilk test , it will be decidedeither parametric or non-parametric test will be used.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age group : 40-65 years
• Both males and females
• Clinical diagnosis of COPD confirmed by smoking history and PFT airflow
• Patients taking their regular medications e.g bronchodilator

Exclusion criteria

• Restrictive lung disease
• Pneumothorax
• Resting O2 saturation <90% with room air breathing
• Recent exacerbations
• Patients with active viral or bacterial infection
• Abdominal or thoracic surgery (<3months ago)
• Cardiologic conditions (<6months ago e.g Myocardial infarction or unstable angina
• Intubated Patients
• Orthopedic or urogenital conditions
• Neurological disorders limiting cognition & mobility

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

manual chest physical therapy and Buteyko breathing technique

Experimental group

Description:

Group A will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Buteyko breathing technique

Treatment:

Other: Buteyko breathing technique

manual chest physical therapy and Diaphragmatic breathing technique.

Experimental group

Description:

Group-B will be treated with manual chest physical therapy and Diaphragmatic breathing technique.

Treatment:

Other: Diaphragmatic breathing technique.