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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of low-load/high-repetition resistance training on exercise capacity, health status and limb muscle adaptation in patients with severe COPD: a randomized controlled trial.
Training volume is paramount in the magnitude of physiological adaptations following resistance training. However, patients with severe COPD are limited by dyspnea during traditional two-limb low-load/high-repetition resistance training (LLHR-RT), resulting in suboptimal training volumes. During a single exercise session, single-limb LLHR-RT decreases the ventilatory load and enables higher localized training volumes compared with two-limb LLHR-RT. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov; No.: NCT02283580; URL: www.clinicaltrials.gov.
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An 84-year-old physician was seen in the pulmonary clinic with 10 days of progressive exertional dyspnea, night sweats, and dry cough. For the past 5 months, he had been taking ibuprofen for lumbar radiculopathy from spinal stenosis. Ten days earlier, ibuprofen was switched to naproxen 250 mg twice daily because of its longer half-life. ⋯ Long-term medications included aspirin, flecainide, atorvastatin, amlodipine, levothyroxine, and candesartan. He was a lifelong nonsmoker. There was no history of recent travel.