Inspiratory Muscle Training in Patients With Stroke in Subacute Phase.

Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinical Hospital (HCUVA)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stroke Rehabilitation

Treatments: Device: IMT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03800485

2017-10-4-HCUVA

Details and patient eligibility

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Assess the effect of inspiratory muscle training on lung function, muscle strength and trunk balance in survivors of stroke in the subacute phase of the disease

Full description

Assess the effect of inspiratory muscle training on lung function, muscle strength and trunk balance in survivors of stroke in the subacute phase of the disease. The intervention will be done in a group of patients who will be treated in the rehabilitation service at the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital. They will train using a threshold IMT device or a Powerbreathe device, to increase their inspiratory muscle strength in addition to a physical therapy treatment. The intervention will last eigtht weeks and the patients will be evaluated at the beginning and at the end of the intervention.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Sroke 6 months before of the beginning of the study
• Be able to understand simple commands
• Hemiparesis or hemiplegia
• Not have serious cardiopulmonary diseases(COPD,asthma,bronchiectasis)

Exclusion criteria

• Associated neurological pathology leading to muscle weakness
• Severe respiratory pathology, pulmonary embolism, presence of tracheostomy cannula,
• intracranial hypertension
• Acute retinal datachment, recent eye surgery
• Impossibility of labial occlusion
• Unstable heart disease, unstable angina, aortic aneurysm
• Recent thoracic or abdominal surgery(6 months)
• Uncontrolled arterial hypertension

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

IMT-GE

Experimental group

Description:

the participants will perform a training protocol of the inspiratory muscles during 8 weeks with a load that will increase from the 15% of the maximal inspiratory preassure until the 60% of the maximal inspiratory preassure.

Treatment:

Device: IMT

IMT-GP

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The participants will perform a training protocol of the inspiratory muscles during 8 weeks with a load that will be the 10% of the maximal inspiratory preassure during all the 8 weeks

Treatment:

Device: IMT