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

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

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

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

⁴ Institute for Breathing and Sleep , Melbourne , AU

⁵ Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport , LaTrobe University, Melbourne , AU

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

⁷ Sydney Local Health District , Camperdown , AU

⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences , University of Sydney, Lidcombe , AU

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

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

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

¹² Department of Physiotherapy , Western Health, Melbourne , AU

¹³ School of Health and Social Care , Teesside University, Middlesbrough , GB

¹⁴ Alfred Health , Melbourne , AU

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

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

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

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

¹⁹ GF MacDonald Centre for Lung Health , Edmonton, AB, CA

²⁰ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CA

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

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

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

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