NCT01930526

Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: West Park Healthcare Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) with supervised exercise training is a key part of care for patients with chronic lung disease (COPD). Patients can improve their shortness of breath, walking distance and quality of life. However, many patients do not improve their overall fitness. They are too breathless to train at a high enough intensity. In a laboratory training study, patients with COPD improved their overall fitness by using single leg cycling. Despite this knowledge, single leg cycling has not been used clinically. The objective of this project is to use and assess single leg cycling in a clinical setting. Single leg cycling can be incorporated into a clinical service (replacing traditional two legged cycling) as the predominant aerobic training strategy, resulting in improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness (peak oxygen uptake).

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a short course 6-12 weeks of supervised exercise training and education for patients with COPD. This is part of their usual treatment. This study is replacing two-legged cycling with single leg training. Patients will have the usual PR outcome measures assessed but in addition will have a laboratory exercise test.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2013-08-29
• Last updated: 2016-01-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada