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Respiratory Muscle Training Program in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

CompletedNA

Sponsor: Universidad Europea de Madrid

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis, Respiration Disorders

Interventions: Conventional treatment, Experimental treatment

Countries: Spain

This is a quasi-experimental pre-post trial aimed at investigating the effects of respiratory muscle training (RMT) as trunk stabilization exercise in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS)

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Confirmed diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis based on McDonald criteria, with a disease duration of more than two years (relapsing or progressive) (McDonald et al., 2001).
* All multiple sclerosis patients are included according to the Kurtzke Disability Status Scale (EDSS) ANEX II (Kurtzke 1983, Tollár 2020).\*
* Stable medical treatment for at least the six months prior to the intervention (Tollár, 2020).
* Absence of cognitive impairment, with the ability to understand instructions and achieve a score equal to or greater than 24 on the Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein, Folstein \& McHugh, 1975, Tollár 2020).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of another neurological disease or musculoskeletal alteration other than MS.
* Diagnosis of any cardiovascular, respiratory, or metabolic disease, or other conditions that may interfere with this study.
* Experienced exacerbation or hospitalization within the last 3 months prior to initiating the assessment protocol, nor during the therapeutic intervention process.
* Received a cycle of steroids, intravenously or orally, 6 months prior to the start of the assessment protocol and within the study intervention period.

Locations (1)

Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain