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The influence of inspiratory muscle training combined with the Pilates method on lung function in elderly women: A randomized controlled trial

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Title
The influence of inspiratory muscle training combined with the Pilates method on lung function in elderly women: A randomized controlled trial
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Clinics, June 2018
DOI 10.6061/clinics/2018/e356
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Guilherme Medeiros de Alvarenga, Simone Arando Charkovski, Larissa Kelin dos Santos, Mayara Alves Barbosa da Silva, Guilherme Oliveira Tomaz, Humberto Remigio Gamba

Abstract

Aging is progressive, and its effects on the respiratory system include changes in the composition of the connective tissues of the lung that influence thoracic and lung compliance. The Powerbreathe® K5 is a device used for inspiratory muscle training with resistance adapted to the level of the inspiratory muscles to be trained. The Pilates method promotes muscle rebalancing exercises that emphasize the powerhouse. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of inspiratory muscle training combined with the Pilates method on lung function in elderly women. The participants were aged sixty years or older, were active women with no recent fractures, and were not gait device users. They were randomly divided into a Pilates with inspiratory training group (n=11), a Pilates group (n=11) and a control group (n=9). Spirometry, manovacuometry, a six-minute walk test, an abdominal curl-up test, and pulmonary variables were assessed before and after twenty intervention sessions. The intervention led to an increase in maximal inspiratory muscle strength and pressure and power pulmonary variables (p<0.0001), maximal expiratory muscle strength (p<0.0014), six-minute walk test performance (p<0.01), and abdominal curl-up test performance (p<0.00001). The control group showed no differences in the analyzed variables (p>0.05). The results of this study suggest inspiratory muscle training associated with the Pilates method provides an improvement in the lung function and physical conditioning of elderly patients.

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Unknown 218 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 15%
Student > Bachelor 26 12%
Student > Postgraduate 15 7%
Researcher 9 4%
Lecturer 7 3%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 102 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 46 21%
Sports and Recreations 22 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 13 6%
Unknown 107 49%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2023.
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#8,538,940
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Outputs from Clinics
#327
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#137,244
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Outputs of similar age from Clinics
#4
of 15 outputs
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