Source: Annual Congress 2010 - Exercise training and pulmonary rehabilitation
Disease area: Airway diseases

Abstract

Background and objective: It is unknown whether pulmonary rehabilitation acutely impacts on daily activity profiles of patients. The objective of this study was to characterize how attending a rehabilitation program influences daily activity.
Methods: Measurements of daily activity were performed during three different weeks within a three-month rehabilitation program with the SenseWear Pro3 activity monitor (BodyMedia Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, US). Rehabilitation days (RD) and non-rehabilitation days (NRD) were compared both with (Full Day) and without (Partial Day) the time frame that included the training session on the rehabilitation days (13.00h to 16.00h).
Results: Patterns of physically active time (>2 METs) in 10 patients with COPD (age 71±3 yrs, FEV1: 47±19 %pred) are summarized in table 1.

	RD	NRD	Ref Day
Full day	83±29*	36±20	41±29
Partial Day	34±14*	20±11

Table 1. Data represent mean minutes of activity±std. error; Ref Day = usual day assessed before starting rehab; * = statistically significant difference between RD and NRD (p<0.05)

No statistically significant difference (p=0.59) was found between NRD and weekdays assessed before starting the rehabilitation program (Ref Day) .
Conclusion: Attending a rehabilitation program resulted in additional physical activity on top of usual daily activities in patients with COPD.We did not find a significant change in daily activities on days between sessions in comparison with usual activities. Additional activity was not only induced by participation in the training itself. We speculate that additional daily activity was generated by transportational activities that had to be performed to attend the program.

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D. Langer, H. van Remoortel, C. Burtin, W. Janssens, M. Decramer, R. Gosselink, T. Troosters (Belgium). Profiles of daily physical activity during three months of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: Suppl. 54, 1938

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