NCT01727765

Inspiratory Muscle Training and Asthma

Inspiratory Muscle Training as a Novel Approach in the Treatment of Asthma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Portsmouth · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a pilot study which will assess the feasibility of a follow on main study. This study will examine the impact of inspiratory muscle training on quality of life, rescue drug medication usage, and other markers of asthma in adult asthmatics in the UK.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	inspiratory muscle training	Both groups will undertake six weeks of inspiratory muscle training (POWERbreathe, H\&B International Ltd, UK), six days per week, with the only difference being the load set on the inspiratory muscle training device. For the real inspiratory muscle training group this load will be set to around 50% of maximal inspiratory mouth pressure and for the sham inspiratory muscle training group this load will be set to around 5% of maximal inspiratory mouth pressure.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2012-11-16
• Last updated: 2019-10-25
• Results posted: 2019-10-25

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United Kingdom