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Respiratory Function and Walking Capacity in Multiple Sclerosis

NCT01774201 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2017-01-18

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Summary

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic progressive neurological disease. Respiratory dysfunction due to weakness in the respiratory musculature has been described in MS. This leads to increased morbidity and mortality in late stages of the disease. It is possible that respiratory dysfunction influence physical fitness in earlier stages as well. Walking disability and fatigue causes significant impact on health in patients with MS, even in earlier stages.

The hypothesis is that there is a relationship between respiratory function, walking capacity and fatigue and that daily deep breathing exercise during two months will improve respiratory function, walking capacity and fatigue.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Breathing exercises

Breathing exercises with positive expiratory pressure.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Örebro County Council

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Region Örebro County

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elisabeth Westerdahl, Phd · Department of Physiotherapy, Örebro University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

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