Whole Body Vibration in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Hospital de Mataró

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Device: A vertical vibration platform Fitybe

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01850173

MAT-VIB01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators designed the current study with the main objective of determining whether Whole Body Vibration Training (WBVT) alone improves muscular force and/or modifies the functional capacity parameters in severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients referred to a rehabilitation programme.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 55 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• severe COPD defined as a post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1)/ forced vital capacity (FVC) < 0.7 and FEV1 < 50% predicted,
• stable disease defined as no exacerbation,
• hospital admission or change in treatment in the previous 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

• other significant respiratory disease (bronchiectasis,
• lung fibrosis, asthma, etc),
• active smoking,
• severe cardiovascular,
• neurological, and/or metabolic pathology that could interfere with the results,
• total hip, knee or ankle arthroplasty,
• previous vitreous haemorrhage,
• severe alcoholism (> 80 g/day) and
• severe malnutrition (BMI < 19 Kg/m2) to reduce the risk of falling and dropouts.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

static work with a vertical vibration platform

Experimental group

Description:

The training was designed to perform static work of the lower limbs. Patients worked in a squatting position, with 30º of hip flexion and 55º of knee flexion, holding onto the bars of the WBV platform.

Treatment:

Device: A vertical vibration platform Fitybe

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

general recommendations about physical activity and lifestyle