Clinical Trial
Study Details
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.
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.
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.
Study Overview
sickle cell disease patients whose number will be forty patients will be divided to group I who will trained with IMT (threshold inspiratory muscle training) and treated with AC-tens (the number of patients will be 20) or group II who will trained with IMT (the number of patients will be 20) . 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.
Contacts and Locations
faculty of physical therapy Cairo university
Dokki
Giza Governorate
Egypt