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Comparison of Supervised Ground Walk Training and Treadmill Walk Training in COPD Patients

NCT02218918 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2017-10-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pulmonary Rehabilitation became a vital part of management in COPD patients in form of activity modification, dietary and pharmacological optimisation. But access to traditional supervised aerobic (treadmill) walking is debatable fact due to economical and staffing expertise in developing countries like India. The investigators designed a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of ground based walking over traditional treadmill walking in improving quality of life in COPD patients.

Conditions

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Ground walk training

3 times a week and 6 weeks

BEHAVIORAL

Supervised Treadmill Walk training

3 times a week and 6 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • PSG Hospitals

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Baskaran Chandrasekaran, MPTh · Senior Physiotherapist

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-08-31
Completion
2016-10-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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