NCT04613050

Effect of Respiratory Versus Aerobic Training on Respiratory and Immunity Efficiency in Recovered COVID- 19 Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will be conducted on eighty patients of both sexes with age ranging from 35 to 45years. The will be recovered from COVID-19 infection with chest symptoms. They will be selected from Nasr city police authority hospital. They will be randomly assigned into 3 equal groups.

Detailed description

This study will be conducted on eighty patients of both sexes with age ranging from 35 to 45years. The will be recovered from COVID-19 infection with chest symptoms. They will be selected from Nasr city police authority hospital. They will be randomly assigned into 3 equal groups. Participants will be assigned into 3 groups equal in number (group A, group B, group C) Group A (Respiratory Training Group) : It will include 30 patients of both sexes, recovered from COVID-19 infection. In addition to medical drugs, they will receive respiratory training for 6 weeks. Group B : (Aerobic Training Group) : It will include 30 patients of both sexes, recovered from COVID-19 infection. In addition to medical drugs, they will receive aerobic training for 6 weeks Group C : (control group) :It will include 20 patients of both sexes, recovered from COVID-19 infection on medical drugs only will receive no exercise as control group.

Conditions

• Covid 19 Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Respiratory Training	Respiratory training in form of : Diaphragmatic breathing,Segmental breathing, Incentive spirometer:
OTHER	Aerobic training	aerobic exercises are customized according to the patient's underlying disease and residual dysfunction. These exercises will include walking on treadmill. After an initial, 5-minute warm-up phase performed on the treadmill at a low load, each endurance training session lasted 30 minutes and ended with 5-minute recovery and relaxation phase. A total of 3-5 sessions are carried out per week. Patients who are prone to fatigue should perform intermittent exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-02
• Primary completion: 2022-10-24
• Completion: 2022-10-30
• First posted: 2020-11-03
• Last updated: 2022-12-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt