CPET Guided Rehab vs Physiotherapy in Patients With Dysfunctional Breathing (NCT06707623) | Clinical Trial Compass
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CPET Guided Rehab vs Physiotherapy in Patients With Dysfunctional Breathing
Greece78 participantsStarted 2024-11-27
Plain-language summary
In this study the efficacy of a pulmonary rehabilitation program tailored to the needs of patients with dysfunctional breathing (DB) will be investigated using cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The pulmonary rehabilitation program will be compared with physiotherapy which is currently the mainstream therapy of DB.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Dysfunctional breathing (DB) diagnosed with CPET.
* Adult patients (\>18 years of age)
* Able and willing to attend an outpatient multidisciplinary, supervised rehabilitation program of a total duration of two months (8 weeks).
* Able and willing to attend 5 physiotherapy sessions over a period of 9 weeks.
* Sign an informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
* No underling pathology explaining dyspnea and DB in CPET (e.g normal dead space to tidal volume ratio (VD/Vt) and normal alveolar-arterial (A-a) gradient.)
* Patients with COPD
* Patients with uncontrolled asthma
* Patients with post-exertional malaise (PEM).
* Patients that cannot attend an outpatient rehabilitation program like suffering from dementia, chronically paralyzed, with paraplegia, multiple injuries, or other serious orthopaedic problems that cause disability or suffer from very serious underlying diseases such as end-stage cancer, and patients with neurological diseases that cause disability, require specialized rehabilitation clinics and special interventions (speech therapy, kinesiotherapy, etc.).
What they're measuring
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)
Timeframe: At enrolment and after 8/9 weeks (depends on study arm).