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Pulmonary Functions in Sickle Cell Disease: Response to Acu-TENS
Sponsor: Cairo University
Summary
pulmonary complications are common in sickle cell disease patients. Respiratory training using inspiratory muscle trainer (IMT) is usually a good choice to improve these complications. Recently, acupuncture like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (AC-tens) may also improve these complications.
Official title: Pulmonary Functions in Sickle Cell Disease: Response of Adding Acu-TENS to Inspiratory Muscle Training
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
20 Years - 50 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
40
Start Date
2024-12-15
Completion Date
2025-05-01
Last Updated
2025-01-03
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
inspiratory muscle training and acupucnture like transcutanoeus electrical nerve stimulation
sickle cell disease patients whose number will be 20 patients will be trained with IMT (threshold inspiratory muscle training) and treated with AC-tens. The number of sessions per week will be three sessions for IMT or AC-tens for 12 weeks. the IMT will be performed for six sets of respiratory training cycles and the set will contain 10 respiratory cycles. Also the session of AC-tens will be 45 minute on bilateral Ex-B1 acupoint. the parameters of AC-tens will be four hertz and 200 microsecond pulse duration.
inspiratory muscle training
sickle cell disease patients whose number will be 20 patients who will trained with IMT (threshold inspiratory muscle training). The number of sessions per week will be three sessions for IMT for 12 weeks. the IMT will be performed for six sets of respiratory training cycles and the set will contain 10 respiratory cycles.
Locations (1)
faculty of physical therapy Cairo university
Dokki, Giza Governorate, Egypt