Clinical trialNCT01799330CompletedInterventional

Rehabilitation of Patients With COPD Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation

SponsorYale UniversityEnrollment32COPD

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Summary

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The two hypotheses to be tested in this study are that: 1. The administration of transcutaneous electrical muscle stimulation (TCEMS) after completion of conventional exercise training in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) will result in further improvements in exercise tolerance, functional status and symptoms of patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) above those achieved in PR alone. 2. TCEMS can improve exercise tolerance, functional status and symptoms even among COPD patients who fail to make gains in exercise tolerance by participating in conventional PR due to their debilitation and/or marked cardio-respiratory impairment.

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Investigators

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Carolyn L Rochester, MD
VA Connecticut Healthcare System/ Yale University School of Medicine
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Va Connecticut Healthcare System
West Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Dec 2008
Primary completion: 8 May 2014
Completion: 8 May 2014
Last update posted: 28 Sept 2020
Registered enrollment: 32
Registry id: NCT01799330

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