28
Participants
Start Date
February 21, 2022
Primary Completion Date
April 25, 2022
Study Completion Date
May 30, 2022
Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT)
The IMT protocol will consist of home-based high-intensity daily training - two cycles of 30 breaths with a 1-min rest between sets, twice a day for 8 weeks using an IMT Threshold device (Threshold IMT Philips® Respironics, Inc). The intensity of the training will be set to 50% of each patient's maximal inspiratory pressure measured every week and was adjusted weekly based on the modified Borg scale from 4 to 6 regarding respiratory effort performed during the session.
Sham IMT
The IMT protocol will consist of home-based daily training - two cycles of 30 breaths with a 1-min rest between sets, twice a day for 8 weeks using an IMT Threshold device (Threshold IMT Philips® Respironics, Inc). The intensity of the training will be set to the lowest intensity of the IMT Threshold device.
Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
Dokuz Eylul University
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