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Physiotherapy in Exacerbation Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

NCT01826682 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2016-11-03

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Summary

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic condition. Its evolution can be aggravated in some periods by an increase of the symptoms (above all the cough, the dyspnoea and the quantity of sputum purulence). This is known as exacerbation and it is the most frequent cause of hospital stay, urgences services and death in COPD. A physiotherapy program is carrying out in patients attending to the Hospital because of an exacerbation.

The hypothesis of this study is that a physiotherapy program added to a medical treatment increase the ventilatory function, the physiques variables, decrease depression and anxiety and improve the quality of life. Additionally, it is going to be assessed the effect of physiotherapy in time using phone calls and visits to the patient's home.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Physiotherapy program+medical treatment

Patients included in this group are going to receive physiotherapy during their hospital stay 45 minutes every day. The physical training is based on respiratory exercises, the use of a flutter (positive expiratory pressure), pedaling and theraband exercises.

OTHER

Medical treatment

Standard medical treatment without physiotherapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad de Granada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marie Carmen Valenza, PT, PhD · Universidad de Granada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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