NCT01480960

Effects of a Whole Body Vibration Training in Patients After Lung Transplantation

Effects of a Whole Body Vibration Training on the Exercise Performance in Patients After Lung Transplantation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pulmonary rehabilitation has been established as an evidence-based and recommended therapy in patients following lung transplantation. Exercise training has been shown to be a cornerstone of an inpatient rehabilitation program to reduce muscle dysfunction and improve exercise performance. In our study we will investigate the benefit of a whole body vibration training in addition to a standard pulmonary rehabilitation program that includes endurance and strength training. We will include a total of 140 patients (70 patients \< 1 year after lung Transplantation and 70 patients \> 1 year after lung Transplantation). Our hypothesis is that an addtitional whole body vibration training produces a greater benefit to exercise capacity in lung transplantat patients (LTx).

Conditions

• Patients Following Lung Transplantation (Single and Double)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pulmonary rehabilitation + whole body vibration training	standard inpatient rehabilitation program including endurance and strength plus squats on a vibration plate for 4x2 minutes, 3 times per week

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2011-11-29
• Last updated: 2016-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany