60
Participants
Start Date
June 30, 2011
Primary Completion Date
October 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
February 28, 2019
Respiratory Muscle Training
Standard threshold Positive Expiratory Pressure Device and threshold Inspiratory Muscle Trainer assembled together using a T-shaped connector with flanged mouthpiece will be used. The participants will be instructed to perform inspiratory and expiratory efforts against a resistive load. Training session lasts 45 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for 4 weeks.
Frazier Rehabilitation and Neuroscience Institute, Louisville
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
NIH
University of Louisville
OTHER