Effects of acute use of pursed-lips breathing during exercise in patients with COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physio.2017.08.007
Abstract: BACKGROUND Pursed-lips breathing (PLB) is a ventilatory strategy frequently adopted spontaneously by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to relieve dyspnoea, and its practice is widely taught as a respiratory strategy to increase exercise… read more here.
Keywords: exercise patients; acute use; patients copd; pursed lips ... See more keywords