Breathing With a Facemask Exercise Performance

Description

This study will determine the dyspnea response in chronic lung disease volunteers during treadmill walking with and without added inspiratory resistance. This study will also determine the level of dyspnea and exercise sense of effort in individuals walking on a treadmill when elevations occur. Comparisons will be made of a participant's exercise response with and without increased inspiratory resistance. In this study, exercise performance will be analyzed based on physiological and perceptual measures. The participant will undergo two sessions: one session will be a standard exercise walking test without an inspiratory resistance; the other session will be the same standard exercise walking test while breathing with an inspiratory resistance equal to a N95 facemask (R=10-15 cmH2O/L/sec). Performance will be determined by physiological measures. Perception will be determined by scores based on numerical scales and automatically with the forehead Vitality remote monitoring sensor.

Conditions

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study will determine the dyspnea response in chronic lung disease volunteers during treadmill walking with and without added inspiratory resistance. This study will also determine the level of dyspnea and exercise sense of effort in individuals walking on a treadmill when elevations occur. Comparisons will be made of a participant's exercise response with and without increased inspiratory resistance. In this study, exercise performance will be analyzed based on physiological and perceptual measures. The participant will undergo two sessions: one session will be a standard exercise walking test without an inspiratory resistance; the other session will be the same standard exercise walking test while breathing with an inspiratory resistance equal to a N95 facemask (R=10-15 cmH2O/L/sec). Performance will be determined by physiological measures. Perception will be determined by scores based on numerical scales and automatically with the forehead Vitality remote monitoring sensor.

Measuring Exercise Performance and Perception With Facemask Resistance

Breathing With a Facemask Exercise Performance

Condition
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Pleasant Hill

John Muir Health, Pleasant Hill, California, United States, 94523

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Former pulmonary rehabilitation patients that are now participating in maintenance exercise classes
  • * Males and females with an age range of 18 years or older
  • * Subjects must be able to walk on treadmill for multiple sessions
  • * The subjects in each experiment will be recruited for a distribution of gender, ethnicity and age

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

CereVu Medical, Inc.,

Alireza Akhbardeh, PhD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, CereVu Medical

Study Record Dates

2023-12-31