NCT01831414

Effect of Immersion Level on Respiratory Function of Spinal Cord Injury Patients During Balneotherapy

Etude Pilote évaluant l'Effet du Niveau d'Immersion Sur la Fonction Respiratoire Des Patients tétraplégiques bénéficiant de balnéothérapie

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre d'Investigation Clinique et Technologique 805 · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Balneotherapy is a physiotherapy technique which allows patients to work out in a weightless environment and which is often used in patients with spinal cord injury. In normal subjects, water immersion generates a reduction in lung volumes. The effects of water immersion on the respiratory function of spinal cord injury patient (who are liable to present a respiratory failure secondary to paralysis) are not well known. They could be deleterious (by majoring respiratory failure)or beneficial (by mimicking the effect of a corset and improving respiratory function). Therefore, we are planning to study the effect of different water immersion levels on the respiratory function of spinal cord injury patients.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Water immersion at cervical level	balneotherapy session of spinal cord patients with a Water immersion at cervical level
OTHER	Water immersion at xyphoid level	balneotherapy session of spinal cord patients with a Water immersion at xyphoid level

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2013-04-15
• Last updated: 2013-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France