Chest Physiotherapy or Techniques in Cardio-pulmonary Physiotherapy?

Abstract

Not all the patients referred for chest physiotherapy require secretion removal as some patients may require management of breathlessness and others may require re-expansion of lungs. Hence cardiopulmonary physiotherapy techniques were evolved. The techniques thus evolved facilitated removal of secretions and even included techniques to improve lung volumes and capacities and techniques to reduce work of breathing. Even though breathing techniques and breathing exercises are different these terms were interchangeably used in the literature and practiced. Hence this commentary gives insight to these issues. Here the authors described in brief different techniques which are available in the literature.nbsp