NCT01850173

Whole Body Vibration in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Effects of Whole Body Vibration Training in Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Mataró · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 55 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators designed the current study with the main objective of determining whether Whole Body Vibration Training (WBVT) alone improves muscular force and/or modifies the functional capacity parameters in severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients referred to a rehabilitation programme.

Conditions

• COPD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	A vertical vibration platform Fitybe	They performed 6 series, and each series consisted of four 30-second repetitions with a frequency of 35 Hz and 2 millimeters of amplitude, with 60 seconds of rest between each series.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2013-05-09
• Last updated: 2013-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain