# Effect of Expiratory Positive Pressure on Dynamic Hyperinflation and Ability to Exercise With Upper Limbs in COPD

> **NCT03073564** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre** · enrollment: 19 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

## Interventions

- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Endurance test for upper limbs
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Functional test

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03073564
- **Lead sponsor:** Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2015-12-01
- **Primary completion:** 2018-08-01
- **Final completion:** 2018-10-30
- **Target enrollment:** 19 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2019-02-05

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03073564

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03073564, "Effect of Expiratory Positive Pressure on Dynamic Hyperinflation and Ability to Exercise With Upper Limbs in COPD". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03073564. Licensed CC0.

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