A home-based lower limb-specific resistance training programme for patients with COPD: an explorative feasibility study.

Hannah CookCharles C ReillyGerrard F Rafferty

Published in: ERJ open research (2019)

It is feasible and acceptable to deliver a home-based lower limb-specific resistance training (LLSRT) programme to patients with COPD. Individual patient improvements in walking distance and breathlessness severity were observed post-LLSRT intervention. http://bit.ly/30xYpWI.

Keyphrases

lower limb
resistance training
body composition
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
high intensity
lung function
study protocol
randomized controlled trial
case report
clinical trial
cystic fibrosis