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Respiratory dysfunction in patients with stable COPD leads to diaphragmatic fatigue and failure when tested against small increases in inspiratory resistive load. This is an important issue to address as it can significantly impact both patient outlook as well as...

COPD patients deal with a lot. One of their most common issues they experience is respiratory muscle weakness. This contributes to exercise intolerance, dyspnea and reduced quality of life. There are, however, different muscle training methods that can work to better...

COPD patients often suffer from inspiratory as well as expiratory muscle weakness, and this contributes to dyspnea, reduced exercise tolerance and capacity, and reduced quality of life. Both inspiratory muscle training (IMT) and expiratory muscle training (EMT) have...

COPD is a condition that can dramatically affect a patient’s outlook and prognosis, as well as their ability to live life. Respiratory muscle weakness in patients with COPD, for example, contributes to dyspnea and exercise intolerance. These, in turn, affect physical...

CCOPD patients undergo a lot hardship, particularly when it comes to their respiratory functions. Respiratory muscle training (RMT) aims to counteract the respiratory muscle weakness that is so common in COPD patients – a weakness that contributes to poor exercise...

COPD is a serious condition that affects millions of individuals every day, both physically as well as financially. Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) present the major part of the economic burden of COPD, as they lead to emergency department visits and...

COPD patients have to live with reduced respiratory functions every day – and, as a result, they often have to invest in treatment options to help keep them as healthy as possible. One of these options might be an inhaler of some sort to use when function is...

During the progression of COPD, airflow becomes increasingly limited, leading to decreased inspiratory and expiratory capacities and reduced elasticity of lung sacs (dynamic hyperinflation). Hyperinflation during exercise is the main cause for exertional...

Rehabilitation programs for COPD patients currently include general exercise regimes, but not necessarily respiratory muscle training (RMT). The stated aim of COPD and other pulmonary rehabilitation programs is the optimization of physical and social performance as...

COPD is a chronic and progressive condition that can lead to increasingly reduced airflow and respiratory function in patients. If allowed to progress unchecked, these issues significantly contribute to mortality rates of patients. Respiratory muscle training (RMT)...