IRCT20240413061474N3 IRCT 2025-08-25 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Investigating the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation along with respiratory physiotherapy in COPD exacerbation patients Investigating the effect of adding pulmonary rehabilitation to respiratory physiotherapy in patients with COPD exacerbation, referring to Masih Daneshvari Hospital 2025-10-23 anticipated 82 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/85619 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Other, Randomization description: For randomization, a simple randomization method is used with the help of a random number table. For this purpose, two groups are named as A and B. We choose one of the rows of the random number table at will, and the numbers in each row will be between 0 and 9. We assign the numbers 0-4 to treatment A and the numbers 5-9 to treatment B, Blinding description: The clinical outcome assessor will not have access to patient grouping and will remain blinded throughout the study. Patients and therapists will not be blinded. 3 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Intervention 1: Intervention group: Initially, the patient is taught breathing exercises and stretching exercises on the bed by a specialist physiotherapist. Breathing exercises include pursed lip breathing with diaphragmatic breathing and deep breathing with upper limb stretching. Then, an aerobic exercise program and strengthening exercises are performed. Intervention 2: Control group: Patients perform breathing exercises, diaphragmatic breathing, and deep breathing along with upper limb stretching. Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available Justification or reason for indecision in sharing IPD is There is no further information.