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. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with cognitive, hearing or visual deficit; * Changes in the neuro-musculo-skeletal system which endangers or impairs the assessment; * Obese * Not be able to achieve at least three stages of the incremental test.