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Efficacy of Arm Training in COPD Patients

NCT00825032 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2011-08-04

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Summary

Recent guidelines on pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) recommend upper extremity exercise training (UEET) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The theory supporting the inclusion of upper extremity exercise training in the pulmonary rehabilitation for these patients, is based on the profound understanding of the activity of the accessory respiratory muscles, which are competitively involved in both the support of the upper extremities during activities and the ventilation. However, a systematic review of the literature carried out by our staff reveals that the clinical trials carried out up to now to verify the effectiveness of UEET are of poor methodological quality and the investigators cannot corroborate the recommendation recently made on the basis of the results of the investigators' review.

Therefore the investigators began this randomized, parallel groups, controlled clinical trial with the purpose of determining the short-term effect of unsupported UEET on the performance of the upper extremities and on symptoms perceived during activities by patients with COPD.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

PROCEDURE

comprehensive PR

Inpatient comprehensive PR program that lasted lasted 3 weeks and included a minimum of 15 daily sessions of specific training for lower extremities, education, nutritional intervention, psychosocial intervention. It complied with the recommendation of the ATS/ERS.

PROCEDURE

UEET

Experimental program consisting of 15 additional daily sessions of unsupported UEET.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Villa Pineta Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stefania Costi, Dr · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

  • Enrico M Clini, Professor · Villa Pineta Hospital and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-03-31
Primary Completion
2007-10-31
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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