Effects of Eccentric Exercise Training in Patients With COPD

ConditionCOPD
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age20-80
SponsorFu Jen Catholic University

About this trial

The goal of this study is to design eccentric exercise strategies for COPD patients to comprehensively improve their cardiopulmonary/muscular fitness, immune and hemorheological functions, and quality of life, thereby improving the prognosis of their disease.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Having undergone pulmonary rehabilitation for more than 3 months

Sign the written informed consent form

FEV1/FVC < 0.70

Approval for exercise training granted by a specialist physician's assessment

Disqualifiers

Existing of tracheostomy

Those who use oxygen therapy or ventilator at home

Severe heart failure (NYHA III-IV)

Neuromuscular disease

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Eccentric bike

    Device

    Received eccentric cycling exercise

  • conventional group

    Other intervention

    Received conventional treatment

Treatment groups

170 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Control groupActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Intervention Group: eccentric cycling exerciseExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

cardiopulmonary oxygen consumption

to observe the maximum exercise performance

Time frame
12 weeks

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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