Open Access<p>The six-minute stepper test is related to muscle strength but cannot substitute for the one repetition maximum to prescribe strength training in patients with COPD</p>
Author(s) -
Tristan Bonnevie,
Mathilde Allingham,
Guillaume Prieur,
Yann Combret,
David Debeaumont,
Maxime Patout,
A. Cuvelier,
Catherine Viacroze,
Jean-François Muir,
FrancisEdouard Gravier
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s193585
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , physical therapy , repetition (rhetorical device) , strength training , muscle strength , test (biology) , one repetition maximum , physical medicine and rehabilitation , paleontology , biology , philosophy , linguistics
There are many barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation, including a limited access to evaluation centers. To cope with these difficulties, field tests are often used to prescribe endurance training. As field tests are related to muscle strength, they could also be used to prescribe strength training and increase the access to pulmonary rehabilitation in rural area. However, their validity for this purpose has never been studied.