Comprehensive exercise training improves ventilatory muscle function and reduces dyspnea perception in patients with COPD.
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BACKGROUND Comprehensive exercise training (CET) is an efficient strategy to decrease dyspnea perception in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and may result in significant improvement in ventilatory muscles function. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of general exercise training on dyspnea perception and on respiratory muscles strength in COPD patients. METHODS Consecutive COPD patients were enrolled to complete a CET programme. The patients underwent a routine that included a global warm up, upper and lower limbs endurance exercise as well as stretching and relaxation. Before and after the CET programme, patients completed maximal inspiratory (PImax) and expiratory (PEmax) pressures measurements, maximal incremental test, endurance test, and 6-min walk distance (6MWD). RESULTS 71 patients (52 male). Mean age 67.6 +/- 8.6 years, FEV1 (%) 44.2 +/- 16.2 and Mahler dyspnea scale 6.4 +/- 1.8. The results before and after the exercise programme were: PImax 64.7 +/- 22.9 vs. 75.5 +/- 23.7 cmH2O (p=0.001), PEmax 110.8 +/- 28.1 vs. 120.4 +/- 28.1 cmH2O (p=0.004), 6MWD 510.6 +/- 90.3 vs. 528.2 +/- 99.7 metres (p=0.88), time of incremental test 672 +/- 135 vs. 856 +/- 226 sec (p<0.0001). Compared with the pre exercise programme, we observed a significant reduction on Borg dyspnea scale (6.1 +/- 2.8 to 3.6 +/- 2.3, p<0.0001) as well as a longer test time (504 +/- 218 to 1.038 +/- 841, p<0.0001) at the end of the endurance test after CET programme. Improvement of PImax correlated negatively with dyspnea perception at iso-time during the endurance test (r = -0.33, p=0.03). CONCLUSIONS Our results confirm that CET is associated with significant improvement in PImax, PEmax and provide evidence demonstrating that CET reduces dyspnea perception in patients with COPD.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace
دوره 71 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009