Muscle Activity and Sensation During Upright Partitioned Leg Exercise in COPD (MAPLE)

West Park Healthcare Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Device: scooting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02613351

WPHC-RG-1Lscoot20151201

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine if: the large muscles of the leg, activated during walking, are also active during scooting; whether scooting alters the relationship between leg and breathing heaviness; whether there is evidence of leg fatigue during scooting.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of COPD: FEV1 < 80 % and FEV1/FVC < 0.7;
• Able to communicate in English
• Clinically stable

Exclusion criteria

• predominant co-morbidities or treatments that might influence the results of exercise testing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

scooting

Experimental group

Description:

incremental test to establish the relationship between leg and breathing heaviness with increasing demand (speed) during scooting

Treatment:

Device: scooting