1. Research of the respiratory rehabilitation and TCM exercises combined with conventional western medicine therapy on the lung function for the patients with COPD
Jingjing ZHAO ; Hongru LIU ; Xiaoyin SHAN ; Qiang DONG
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;40(8):710-714
Objective:
To observe the effect of the respiratory rehabilitation and TCM exercises combined with conventional western medicine therapy for the patients with COPD.
Methods:
A total of 84 patients with COPD were randomized into the control group and observation group, 42 in each group. The control group were treated with conventional Western medicine treatment, and the observation group was treated with traditional Chinese exercises "sixth tactic" treatment on the basis of control group treatment. All patients were taken one year course of treatment. The changes in lung function, AECOPD occurrence, changes in symptom scores, Hamilton heart questionnaire integration were observed; and possible changes in the factors affecting the efficacy was analyzed by Logistic regression.
Results:
There were not significant differences in FEV1, FEV1/FVC, PEF and SpO2 between the two groups before treatment. After 1 year of treatment, the FEV1 (1.58 ± 0.21 L