The Effect of High Intensity Interval Exercise and Myofunctional Therapy on Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Summary

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder which is caused because of collapse of airway or inappropriate tongue position. As OSA becomes severe, the physical and psychological aspect might be influenced due to insomnia. In addition, many evidences revealed that OSA is related to cardiovascular disorder. Apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) are common parameters to evaluate the severity of OSA. Recently, body and tongue fat have certain relation with OSA, and the higher the fat, the more possible to get OSA. To find the treatments for OSA, myotherapy has been proved to improve AHI and ESS. The treat mechanism is speculated that increasing muscle tone around oral and oropharyngeal and decreasing tongue fat. High intensity interval training (HIIT) might be effective to OSA, for it could lower down the total body fat. Furthermore, HIIT is a time-efficient program which can increase exercise adherence. Last, less articles discussed about the effect of supervised verse unsupervised treatment and the effect of mix-model treatment. The purpose of the study is investigating the comparison between supervised HIIT plus myotherapy and unsupervised home exercise plus myotherapy.

Method:

40 patients who meets the inclusion criteria will be recruited in this article during 2022/01 to 2022/12. Then, they will be randomly assigned into HIIT plus myotherapy group and home exercise plus myotherapy group. The treatment process will last for 8 weeks. All the outcomes such as AHI,ESS and body fat will be completed before and after 8 weeks treatment. The Wilcox signed test was adopted to analyze the treatment before and after the treatment sessions (time effect). The Mann-Whitney U was applied for the difference before and after treatment between two groups (group effect), and the baseline of two groups was also analyzed by this method. The significant level was set as p value\< 0.05.

Hypothesis:

It is speculated that HIIT plus myotherapy might revealed better outcomes on AHI, ESS, and body fat.

Conditions

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Interventions

OTHER

high intensity interval training plus myotherapy

High intensity interval training (HIIT) has been proved its same effect on lower down body fat as moderate intensity continuous training (MICT). In addition, HIIT has the additional benefit of being a time-efficient program which can increase exercise adherence and the participants were more likely to intend to continue. Previous two studies show that HIIT could improve the severity of OSA in both obese adults and obese children. Myotherapy: MT is composed of isotonic and isometric exercise related to oral, oropharyngeal, and respiratory exercise. Based on previous review and meta-analysis, MT can decrease not only AHI score, but also ESS score. It means that MT is beneficial to release the symptom of sudden apnea and hypopneas.

OTHER

home exercise plus myotherapy

Home exercise: ambulation by patients themselves Myotherapy: MT is composed of isotonic and isometric exercise related to oral, oropharyngeal, and respiratory exercise. Based on previous review and meta-analysis, MT can decrease not only AHI score, but also ESS score. It means that MT is beneficial to release the symptom of sudden apnea and hypopneas.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Taoyuan General Hospital

  lead OTHER_GOV

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Max Age

80 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-01-01

Primary Completion

2022-12-01

Completion

2022-12-31

Countries

• Taiwan

Study Locations