NCT01218295

Inspiratory Muscle Training With Normocapnic Hyperpnea in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Efficacy of Inspiratory Muscle Training by Means of Spirotiger® in COPD Patients.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Università degli Studi di Ferrara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Many studies suggest that inspiratory muscles training by means of normocapnic hyperpnea improves exercise tolerance in healthy subjects. No information is available about the use of this training in COPD patients even if other methods (such as threshold loading and resistive loading) have been shown to be effective in terms of Inspiratory Muscle Function, Health-Related Quality of Life and Exercise Tolerance. This study is designed to evaluate the effects of normocapnic hyperventilation by means of Spirotiger®, an instrument training the respiratory muscles, avoiding hypocapnia (using the methodology of isocapnic hyperpnoea)in COPD patients.

Conditions

• COPD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Spirotiger®	training session :10 minutes twice a day X 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-06-01
• Completion: 2011-07-01
• First posted: 2010-10-11
• Last updated: 2010-10-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy