title: [Respiratory muscle training in pulmonary rehabilitation].
abstract: Respiratory muscles are essential in maintaining normal ventilation and adequate gas exchanges. Any imbalance in their function can lead to clinical symptoms: dyspnea, hypercapnia, exercise intolerance, ineffective cough. In the pulmonary rehabilitation a particular area is represented by the respiratory muscle training in various lung diseases. Inspiratory muscles training, particularly in COPD patients, has a beneficial effect, resulting in increased strength and endurance of respiratory muscles, decreased dyspnea level, improved quality of life and exercise tolerance. It is a therapy that can be used alone or in combination with generalized physical training, especially in patients with inspiratory muscle weakness.
authors.affiliation: Institutul de Pneumologie Marius Nasta, Bucureşti. haulicaalina@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Croitoru
authors.forename: Miron Alexandru
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bogdan
mesh_terms: D001945:Breathing Exercises / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D017079:Exercise Tolerance; D006801:Humans; D007320:Inspiratory Capacity; D008171:Lung Diseases; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012132:Respiratory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome