NCT06503913Completed
Cognitive Muscular Therapy for Patients With Long-COVID and Breathing Pattern Disorder
Cognitive Muscular Therapy for Patients With Long-COVID (Post COVID-19) and Breathing Pattern Disorder
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of the study is to test a treatment known as "Cognitive Muscular Therapy (CMT)" for reducing breathlessness and improving autonomic function in patients with long-COVID.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 18 (actual)
- First submitted
- 15 Jul 2024
- Start date
- 1 Aug 2024
- Primary completion date
- 1 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Salford
- Diseases
- Long COVID and ME/CFS
- NCT number
- NCT06503913
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 18
- From 1 Aug 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 Mar 2026
- 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
- Currently receiving physiotherapy-based treatment for LC or breathing pattern disorder
Other illness
- Dementia or other major cognitive impairment
- Any cardiorespiratory disease that requires medical intervention (except asthma management)
Other
- BMI \>32 (as increased subcutaneous fat prevents use of breathing measurement system)
- Current smoker or smoked regularly within last 6 months
- Significant respiratory co-morbidity (e.g. COPD, uncontrolled Asthma)
Who the study is looking for
- Above 18 years old
- Experience moderate/severe breathlessness, quantified using the Modified COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C19-YRSm) scale.
- Speak and understand English sufficiently to read the information sheet and sign the consent form
- Ability to stand without any assistive device for at least 20 minutes (to ensure sufficient capacity to complete the intervention)
Age in the registry: 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Salford Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manchester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
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