Pulmonary Rehabilitation That Includes Arm Exercise Reduces Metabolic and Ventilatory Requirements for Simple Arm Elevation
Key result
A comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program including upper extremity exercises significantly reduced oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production, and minute ventilation during simple arm elevation.
Why the study?
Does a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program including upper extremity training reduce metabolic and ventilatory requirements for arm elevation in patients with chronic airflow obstruction?
Population
14 patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO)
Comparison
Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program… vs Baseline (before PR)
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
Hypothesis-generating for upper extremity training in pulmonary rehabilitation; prospective trials needed before changing practice in chronic airflow obstruction.
Structured PICO
Does a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program including upper extremity training reduce metabolic and ventilatory requirements for arm elevation in patients with chronic airflow obstruction?
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Population
14 patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) evaluated before and after a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program.
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Intervention
Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program that includes upper extremity training
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Comparator
Baseline (before PR)
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Outcome
Metabolic and ventilatory responses (oxygen uptake [VO2], carbon dioxide production [VCO2], heart rate [HR], minute ventilation [VE], tidal volume [VT], and respiratory rate) to 2 min of simple arm elevationsurrogate
A comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program including upper extremity exercises reduces the ventilatory and metabolic requirements for arm elevation in patients with chronic airflow obstruction.
Cite This Study
Couser et al. (1993) studied chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) (n=14). Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program including upper extremity training vs. Before PR (baseline) was evaluated on Metabolic and ventilatory responses (VO2, VCO2, VE) to 2 min of simple arm elevation. A comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program including upper extremity exercises significantly reduced oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production, and minute ventilation during simple arm elevation.