Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Trial

Official title:

Single Leg Cycling in COPD: Knowledge Translation to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01930526
• Other study ID #: JREB2011-12
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 15, 2013
• Last updated: January 4, 2016
• Start date: July 2011
• Est. completion date: October 2015

Study information

• Verified date: January 2016
• Source: West Park Healthcare Centre
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review CommitteeCanada: Health CanadaCanada: Ministry of Health & Long Term Care, Ontario
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 22
• Est. completion date: October 2015
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with COPD referred for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unstable cardiac disease

• any neurological or orthopaedic condition that would make cycling difficult

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Other:
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	West Park Healthcare Centre	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
West Park Healthcare Centre

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in peak oxygen uptake achieved by incremental cycle ergometry	A full incremental cardiopulmonary exercise test will be performed on a cycle ergometer to symptom limitation with expiratory gas analysis.	Measured at the end of an average of eight weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation compared to baseline	No