The Effect of Reflective Breathing Therapy Compared With Conventional Breathing Therapy in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) III-IV

Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: conventional breathing therapy; Other: reflectory breathing therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01478646

RAT 2011

KBerchtesgadener (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether different types of breathing therapies in patients with COPD III-IV decrease dyspnea and increase activity.

Full description

In the treatment of COPD-Patients different kinds of breathing therapy techniques are used, but many of them are not reassessed yet.

Dyspnea is one of the predominant symptoms of COPD patients and has negative impacts on the activity of the patients. Dyspnea during exertion leads to avoiding activity and results in a deconditioning of muscles and of the cardiovascular system.

Thus breathing therapy techniques seem to be useful, which may lead to a decrease of dyspnea and an increase of activity.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether reflective breathing therapy is more effective on decreasing dyspnea and increasing activity than conventional breathing therapy.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• inpatient rehabilitation
• COPD (Gold stage III and IV)

Exclusion criteria

• severe exacerbation in the last four weeks
• acute infections
• fever
• neuritides
• severe osteoporosis
• skin disease
• manic depression

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional breathing therapy

Experimental group

Description:

first: conventional breathing therapy, second: reflectory breathing therapy

Treatment:

Other: conventional breathing therapy

Reflectory breathing therapy

Experimental group

Description:

first: reflectory breathing therapy second: conventional breathing therapy

Treatment:

Other: reflectory breathing therapy