Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on the exercise capacity in COPD patients
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
Background: COPD is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Several studies have reported that a low body weight and weight loss were negatively associated with quality of life and survival in COPD. Present study was conducted for a period of 6 weeks for analysis to see if the benefits of the pulmonary rehabilitation on exercise capacity of COPD patients could be obtained at less cost and time to both medical team and COPD patients. This study was conducted in the department of Physiology, Maulana Azad Medical College and the department of Medicine, Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi. Exercise parameters like 6Minute Walk Test duration, Hand Grip Test and Bicycle Ergometer Endurance time duration improved significantly after 6 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation. Methods: This study was conducted in the physiology epartment MAMC. Spirometry was performed in 30 patients, both males and females suspected of having COPD. After fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria of our study, all patients were finally subjected to pulmonary rehabilitation. After the completion of 6 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation comparison between different exercise parameters both pre and post pulmonary rehabilitation were done. Results: Data collected from the study group was analyzed with statistical software package, SPSS using the student paired t-test, showed that there was significant improvements in terms of Exercise and its related parameters like 6-MWT (p-value< 0.001), HGT (p-value< 0.001), ET (p-value< 0.001) after pulmonary rehabilitation. Conclusion: After 6 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation there was significant improvement in exercise parameters like 6-MWT, HGT, Bicycle ergometer Endurance Time.
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D K Basu, V P Varshney, Mona Bedi, M K Daga
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