NCT05972239Completed
Balance Training in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Balance Training: Its Effect on Pulmonary Rehabilitation of Elderly Subjects With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Apr 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of the study will be to verify whether the addition of an exercise program aimed to improve balance can reduce the risk of falling in subjects with COPD over 80 years of age compared to the standard rehabilitation program. Patients will be randomly assigned in two groups (intervention and control). The pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program is organized in accordance with current guidelines.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 21 (actual)
- First submitted
- 23 May 2023
- Start date
- 1 May 2023
- Primary completion date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT05972239
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 21
- From 1 May 2023 to the primary completion date, 15 Jan 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Lower limb surgery in the previous 6 months.
Other illness
- Acute or chronic impairment and/or medical diseases that are likely to preclude exercise testing and PR.
- Inner ear disease
Other
- Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden score ≥3,
- Mini-Mental State Examination \<22,
- Brain lesions,
- Visual deficit,
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥ 80 years old,
- Diagnosis of COPD according to GOLD Guidelines (Tiffenau Index \<70%) under optimized medical treatment,
- Able to perform and complete study procedures.
Age in the registry: 80 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of pulmonary rehabilitation Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tradate | Italy | Unknown status |
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