Effects of specific inspiratory muscle training combined with whole-body endurance training program on balance in COPD patients: Randomized controlled trial

• Bilel Tounsi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bilel Tounsi, Amal Acheche

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bilel.tounsi@u-picardie.fr, bilel_tounsi@outlook.fr

  Current address: Department of sports sciences, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France

  Affiliations Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation (APERE, UR-EA 3300), Sport Sciences Department, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France, Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology: From Integral to Molecular Biology, Medicine and Health (LR19ES09), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9268-526X

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• Amal Acheche ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bilel Tounsi, Amal Acheche

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  Affiliation Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology: From Integral to Molecular Biology, Medicine and Health (LR19ES09), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1677-5508

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• Thierry Lelard ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of sports sciences, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation (APERE, UR-EA 3300), Sport Sciences Department, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France

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• Zouhair Tabka †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology: From Integral to Molecular Biology, Medicine and Health (LR19ES09), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Yassine Trabelsi ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Research Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology: From Integral to Molecular Biology, Medicine and Health (LR19ES09), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Said Ahmaidi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of sports sciences, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation (APERE, UR-EA 3300), Sport Sciences Department, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France

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