NCT02113748

Downhill Walking Training in COPD

Downhill Walking to Enhance Training Effects in Patients With COPD

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (estimated)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized control trial will investigate whether a modality that generates more contractile muscle fatigue with lower ventilatory requirements render better results after a 12-week exercise training program in subjects with COPD. Subjects will be randomized to either exercise in a training program including downhill walking or to exercise in a training program including conventional walking.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Downhill walking training	Walk on a treadmill with a negative inclination.
OTHER	Conventional walking training	Walk on a treadmill without inclination. Possible to progress training intensity with positive inclinations

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2014-04-15
• Last updated: 2014-04-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium