Effects of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Breathing Pattern in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Muscle Weakness Conditions

Treatments: Procedure: Inspiratory muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02186340

S52852-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The improvement in inspiratory muscle function might result in beneficial changes in breathing pattern during whole body exercise. The hypothesis is the effect of inspiratory muscle training as an adjunct to a pulmonary rehabilitation program improves the breathing pattern during an incremental cycle exercise.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinically stable COPD patients
• maximal inspiratory pressure <100% of the predicted normal value

Exclusion criteria

• Major comorbidities preventing successful participation in an 8 week exercise training intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Inspiratory muscle training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Inspiratory muscle training