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Exercise intolerance is one of the key disabling factors in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although multifactorial, exercise intolerance involves physiological interactions between respiratory and locomotor muscles that may contribute to further reducing exercise tolerance in COPD. The respiratory muscle work during exercise is closely related to breathing and could induce respiratory muscle fatigue in patients with COPD.

Respiratory muscle training is an intervention strategy that is sometimes proposed for some patients with COPD, especially whose with inspiratory muscle weakness. It was reported that inspiratory muscle training improves inspiratory muscle endurance and strength, dyspnea and exercise tolerance. There are two types of inspiratory muscle training, inspiratory muscle training against a resistive loading and normocapnic hyperpnoea. The advantage of normocapnic hyperpnoea compared to resistive training is the possibility to simulate the exercise ventilation level while maintaining stable the partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide and end-tidal pressure of carbon dioxide and to solicit the inspiratory and expiratory muscles together, which could increase respiratory muscle tolerance and avoid their fatigue during whole-body exercise.

Therefore, the aim of this project is to study the effect of normocapnic hyperpnoea training on exercise tolerance in patients with COPD.

We hypothesize that greater improvement in cycling exercise tolerance will be observed following 6-weeks normocapnic hyperpnoea training compared to a sham intervention in patients with COPD.


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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

NCT number NCT04201522
Study type Interventional
Source Laval University
Contact Ferid Oueslati, PhD
Phone +1 (418) 656-8711
Email ferid.oueslati@criucpq.ulaval.ca
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 14, 2017
Completion date February 2021

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