Personalised exercise training in COPD
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Personalised exercise training in COPD – exploring the interaction between exercise physiology, exercise perception and training progression
IRAS ID
243125
Contact name
Martin Lindley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Loughborough University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, 1 days
Research summary
Exercise training as part of Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) has been shown conclusively to improve breathlessness, quality of life and exercise capacity for people with COPD. However generally PR is delivered in a 'one size fits all' approach without considering different aspects of an individual's disease. We hypothesise that a more personalised approach to PR may yield even better results. However to design a personalised programme of PR we need a better understanding of how different people with COPD respond to different possible exercise training modalities. This study will therefore comprehensively characterise a group of patients and then ask them to complete 3 weeks of exercise training in one of four modalities; conventional cycling, eccentric cycling, one-legged cycling and resistance training. We are not aiming to prove which type of training is more effective but to develop an idea of which groups of patients would benefit from which type of training.
Baseline measures would be designed to fully understand how an individual responds to exercise and would therefore be comprised of a variety of endurance tests, strength tests, questionnaires, and measurements of lung capacity and body composition. This is to give us as much information as possible to identify different responses to exercise.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/EM/0178
Date of REC Opinion
22 Aug 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion