Validation of Walking Trails for the Urban Training™ of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Accessible interventions to train patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are needed. We designed urban trails of different intensities (low, moderate and high) in different types of public spaces (boulevard, beach and park). We aimed to validate the trails' design by assessing the physiological response to unsupervised walking trails of: (1) different intensities in COPD patients, and (2) same intensity from different public spaces in healthy adults.

Methods

On different days and under standardized conditions, 10 COPD patients walked the three intensity trails designed in a boulevard space, and 10 healthy subjects walked the three intensity trails in three different spaces. We measured physiological response and energy expenditure using a gas anal

SUBMITTER: Arbillaga-Etxarri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4713200 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature