Pulmonary Rehabilitation With Balance Training for Fall Reduction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Marla K Beauchamp   ^{1, 2} , MScPT, PhD ;   Dina Brooks   ^{2, 3} , PT, PhD ;   Cindy Ellerton   ^{2, 3} , PT, MSc ;   Annemarie Lee   ^{4, 5, 6} , PT, PhD ;   Jennifer Alison   ^{7, 8} , PT, PhD ;   Pat G Camp   ^{9, 10} , PT, PhD ;   Gail Dechman   ¹¹ , PT, PhD ;   Kimberley Haines   ¹² , PT ;   Samantha L Harrison   ¹³ , MScPT, PhD ;   Anne E Holland   ^{4, 5, 14} , PT, PhD ;   Alda Marques   ^{15, 16} , PT, PhD ;   Rahim Moineddin   ¹⁷ , PhD ;   Elizabeth H Skinner   ^{12, 18} , PT, PhD ;   Lissa Spencer   ⁸ , PT, PhD ;   Michael K Stickland   ^{19, 20} , PhD ;   Feng Xie   ^{21, 22, 23} , PhD ;   Roger S Goldstein   ^{2, 3, 24} , MD

¹ School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

² Department of Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Department of Physiotherapy, School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, Australia

⁸ Sydney Local Health District, Camperdown, Australia

⁹ Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹⁰ Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹¹ School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

¹² Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

¹³ School of Health and Social Care, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

¹⁴ Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁵ Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

¹⁶ Institute for Biomedicine Research, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

¹⁷ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁹ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

²⁰ GF MacDonald Centre for Lung Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada

²¹ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

²² Research Institute of St. Joseph’s, Hamilton, ON, Canada

²³ Program for Health Economics and Outcome Measures, Hamilton, ON, Canada

²⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada