NCT06539598

Respiratory Training in Friedreich's Ataxia

Impact of Respiratory Training in Swallowing and Respiratory Function in Patients With Friedreich's Ataxia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Florida · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective interventional study of patients with Friedreich's Ataxia that receive respiratory strength training for a period of 12 weeks with two research visits at the beginning and at the end of the study period. Visits include swallowing evaluation with fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, pulmonary function testing, surface electromyography and patient surveys.

Conditions

• Friedreich Ataxia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Respiratory Strength Training (RST)	Respiratory Strength training involves inhaling/exhaling against a fix resistant to potentially increase respiratory strength

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-29
• Primary completion: 2025-08-07
• Completion: 2025-08-07
• First posted: 2024-08-06
• Last updated: 2025-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States