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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Published on: August 24, 2019

The short- and long-term effects of lower limb endurance training on outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary

An-Chi Chung^1,2, Chun-Jung Chang¹, Jui-Fang Liu^3,4

¹Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan.

Clinical Rehabilitation

|August 14, 2023

Abstract

Objective:

To explore the short- and long-term effects of lower-limb endurance training on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease outpatients.

Design:

Prospective quasi-experimental study.

Setting:

1383-bed teaching hospital in Taiwan.

Participants:

Overall, 69 outpatients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were enrolled. A total of 60 patients completed the study.

Intervention:

Training group: Lower-limb endurance training; control group: Education only.

Main Measures:

The modified medical research council score, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test score, pulmonary function test, and number of acute exacerbation within a year.

Results:

The training group showed significant improvement in the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test total score, modified medical research council score (both P < 0.001) at third month sustaining to 12th month (P < 0.001) and presented less events of acute exacerbation (P = 0.011) at 12th month. The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test decreased by 8 points sustaining to 12th month. The training group presented significant post-training functional capacity improvements in 6-min walking distance, lowest oxygen saturation during 6-min walking test, peak workload, maximum inspiratory/ expiratory pressures, and calf circumference.

Conclusions:

The lower-limb endurance training improved perceived dyspnea in daily activity and health status after completion of training and sustaining for a year. The lower-limb endurance training alleviated disease impacted on reduced acute exacerbations.

Keywords:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease acute exacerbation chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test lower-limb endurance training

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