90
Participants
Start Date
December 31, 2005
Primary Completion Date
February 28, 2007
Study Completion Date
February 28, 2007
Bedside cycle exercise therapy
A 20-minute cycling exercise session is performed 5 days a week using a bedside cycle ergometer. Patients can cycle passively and actively against increasing resistance. Besides this, patients receive the standard physiotherapy program as in arm 2
Standard physiotherapy program
The standard physiotherapy program consists of daily chest physiotherapy and a mobilization session on 5 days per week.
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University Hospitals KULeuven, Leuven
Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium
OTHER
KU Leuven
OTHER