Influence of Respiratory Muscle Training in Elderly Hypertensive Women With Respiratory Muscle Weakness

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Device: Threshold

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01743183

05135912.8.0000.5537

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength in a group of elderly women with hypertension before and after a respiratory muscle training.

Full description

It is a respiratory muscle training using the Threshold for 5 weeks, with a load of 30% of maximal inspiratory pressure obtained in manometer for 30 minutes daily. Furthermore, the assessment includes: test 6-minute walk, the quality of life questionnaire, MINICHAL, the IPAQ short version, manometer and spirometry.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of hypertension controlled by antihypertensive;
• aged between 60 and 80 years;
• absence of dementia or cognitive impairments that limit tests;
• absence of recent myocardial infarction;
• absence of musculoskeletal limitations that limit tests;
• availability of time on training days.

Exclusion criteria

• clinical instability;
• inability to perform any test.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4 participants in 1 patient group

threshold

Experimental group

Description:

Held inspiratory muscle strengthening for 5 weeks with Threshold, charging 30% of maximal inspiratory pressure, 7 days a week, one supervised and unsupervised 6.

Treatment:

Device: Threshold