Volitional pursed lips breathing in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease improves exercise capacity

Chronic Respiratory Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-10

  Bhatt, Surya P ^a   Luqman Arafath, T K ^b   Gupta, Arun K ^b   Mohan, Anant ^b   Stoltzfus, Jill C ^c   Dey, Tanujit ^d   Nanda, Sudip ^e   Guleria, Randeep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^e LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

6 min walk test; COPD; exercise capacity; pursed lips breathing; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREATHING; BREATHING EXERCISE; BREATHING RATE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURSED LIP BREATHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIROMETRY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VITAL CAPACITY;

BREATHING EXERCISES; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873849831     PISSN: 14799723     EISSN: 14799731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1479972312464244     Document Type: Article

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