The Relationship Between Pain, Balance and Gait in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
CompletedNCT04202991
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The balance, gait and pain in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) study will aim to investigate the link between balance and gait impairment, and high rates of pain in people with COPD. This cross-sectional observational study will compare balance and gait outcomes for people with COPD who have pain, to those who are pain free.
Study details
- Official title
- An Investigation of the Relationship of Pain With Balance and Gait Impairment in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Balance Impairment
- Gait Impairment
- Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Exposure - pain
- Sponsor
- Teesside University
- Collaborators
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
- Start date
- 2019-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2019-12-18
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Have a spirometry confirmed diagnosis of COPD as per Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines * Be 18 years or over at the point of recruitment * Be able to communicate with good verbal English or use adaptive equipment to communicate. * Be able to complete test procedures * Stable COPD (six weeks clear of exacerbation) * No uncorrected visual or somatosensory disturbance Exclusion Criteria: * No other conditions that may affect balance or gait e.g. neurological or vestibular conditions * Recent exacerbation of COPD (within the last six weeks) * Unable to provide written informed consent * Unable to speak English or no translation options available * Any other acute health conditions that would make activity unsafe e.g. acute infection, unstable cardiac disease.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04202991