Status
Conditions
Treatments
About
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation. The patients are suffering dyspnea year by year, resulting in the decreased exercise tolerance and quality of life. Patients with COPD often have both inspiratory muscles and expiratory muscle dysfunction. Respiratory muscle training was one of the widely used pulmonary rehabilitation method in COPD patients. Respiratory muscle training include inspiratory training ,expiratory training and concurrent inspiratory and expiratory muscle training . Both of the training methods are effective. However, the effects of these different types of respiratory muscle training method on the respiratory physiology and neural respiratory drive of COPD are still unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the different effects of these respiratory muscle training methods on respiratory mechanics and central drive in COPD patients. Besides,the effect of the different respiratory muscle training methods was compared between patients with and without respiratory muscle weakness.
Full description
The patients with COPD will participate in a rehabilitation program including inspiratory muscle training, expiratory muscle training and concurrent inspiratory and expiratory muscle training.
The outcome measures are the classic respiratory mechanics indicators and respiratory center drive.
Enrollment
Sex
Ages
Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Patients with acute cardiovascular event and severe cor pulmonale. Patients with poor compliance. An Other causes of diaphragmatic dysfunction
Primary purpose
Allocation
Interventional model
Masking
20 participants in 2 patient groups
Loading...
Central trial contact
Xin Chen, Doctor; Wang Li Qing, Doctor
Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov
Clinical trials
Research sites
Resources
Legal