Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

West Park Healthcare Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Treatments: Other: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01930526

JREB2011-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) with supervised exercise training is a key part of care for patients with chronic lung disease (COPD). Patients can improve their shortness of breath, walking distance and quality of life. However, many patients do not improve their overall fitness. They are too breathless to train at a high enough intensity. In a laboratory training study, patients with COPD improved their overall fitness by using single leg cycling. Despite this knowledge, single leg cycling has not been used clinically. The objective of this project is to use and assess single leg cycling in a clinical setting. Single leg cycling can be incorporated into a clinical service (replacing traditional two legged cycling) as the predominant aerobic training strategy, resulting in improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness (peak oxygen uptake).

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with COPD referred for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable cardiac disease
• any neurological or orthopaedic condition that would make cycling difficult

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will undergo the usual pulmonary rehabilitation programme but instead of two-legged cycling they will undergo single leg cycling where they cycle with one leg for 10-15mins and then the other in the same session.

Treatment:

Other: Pulmonary Rehabilitation