Acute Effects of a Stretching Program of the Rib Cage Muscles on Patients With COPD During Exercise

Inclusion Criteria

• •Smoking history, occupational or environmental exposure to pollutants and / or symptoms of cough, dyspnea or hypersecretion;
• •FEV1 \<80% predicted and post-bronchodilator FEV1 / FVC \<70% to confirm the diagnosis of airway obstruction not fully reversible bronchodilator therapy;
• •Absence of co-morbidities that does not allow the realization of stress (hypertension, severe pulmonary hypertension, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, severe dyspnoea);
• •Preserved cognitive functioning;
• •Sedentary
• •Clinically stable during the study period.