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NCT Number: NCT01930526

Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) with supervised exercise training is a key part of care for patients with chronic lung disease (COPD). Patients can improve their shortness of breath, walking distance and quality of life. However, many patients do not improve their overall fitness. They are too breathless to train at a high enough intensity. In a laboratory training study, patients with COPD improved their overall fitness by using single leg cycling. Despite this knowledge, single leg cycling has not been used clinically. The objective of this project is to use and assess single leg cycling in a clinical setting. Single leg cycling can be incorporated into a clinical service (replacing traditional two legged cycling) as the predominant aerobic training strategy, resulting in improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness (peak oxygen uptake).

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Key information

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Behavior Chronic Disease Disease Attributes Lung Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Motor Activity Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Tract Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

West Park Healthcare Centre

Toronto, Ontario, M6M 2J5, Canada

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with COPD referred for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Exclusion criteria

  • Unstable cardiac disease
  • any neurological or orthopaedic condition that would make cycling difficult

Treatment and study plan

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Other

Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a short course 6-12 weeks of supervised exercise training and education for patients with COPD. This is part of their usual treatment. This study is replacing two-legged cycling with single leg training. Patients will have the usual PR outcome measures assessed but in addition will have a laboratory exercise test.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in peak oxygen uptake achieved by incremental cycle ergometry

    Time frame: Measured at the end of an average of eight weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation compared to baseline

    A full incremental cardiopulmonary exercise test will be performed on a cycle ergometer to symptom limitation with expiratory gas analysis.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

West Park Healthcare Centre

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2012
Study completion
2015
First posted
Aug 29, 2013
Registry last updated
Jan 5, 2016

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