NCT03611036

Effect of Different Form of Upper Limb Muscles Training on Dyspnea in COPD

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 280 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluate the effect of upper limbs strength training versus the effect of upper limbs endurance training, on dyspnea, in patients with COPD during a pulmonary rehabilitation program.

Conditions

• COPD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Strength training	Upper limbs Strength training; done with dumbbells whose weight corresponds to 60-80% of the maximal voluntary force in abduction measured initially, during 4 weeks
OTHER	Endurance training	Upper limbs Endurance training of the ; done with dumbbells whose weight corresponds to 30% of the maximum voluntary force in abduction measured initially, during 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-21
• Primary completion: 2023-02-06
• Completion: 2023-02-06
• First posted: 2018-08-02
• Last updated: 2025-01-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: France