Respiratory Muscle Exercise Training in COPD Patients

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Behavioral: Multi-respiratory muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01747694

101-2527A3

Details and patient eligibility

About

COPD patients often suffer from dyspnea and exercise intolerance which lower their quality of life.The aim of this proposed study is to examine the effectiveness of multi-respiratory muscle training on respiratory function of COPD patients.

Full description

The respiratory muscle training is an important part of pulmonary rehabilitation. Subjects will be recruited from the chest medicine clinic of a medical center in Northern Taiwan, randomly assigned to control and experimental groups by severity status for a 12-week muscle training intervention.The outcome measures will be performed to evaluate respiratory function, depression status and quality of life at baseline, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of training.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Must be stable
• Never participate in respiratory muscle trainig program

Exclusion criteria

• Infection or acute excerbation condition
• Abdominal surgical
• Severe neuromuscular, cardiac disease or dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Multi-respiratory muscle training

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will perform multi-repiratory muscle training programe for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multi-respiratory muscle training

Diaphragmatic breathing

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will be taught diaphragmatic breathing technique routinely. To practice at home lasting 12 weeks