Abstract
We have suggested ( Chatham et al., 1999 Chatham K Baldwin J Griffiths H Summers L Enright S ‘Inspiratory muscle training improves shuttle run performance in healthy subjects’. Physiotherapy. 1999; 85: 676-683 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (32) Google Scholar ) that inspiratory muscle training (IMT) may be prescribed successfully to individuals with all grades of respiratory fitness if set at 80% of their individual sustained maximum inspiratory pressure (SMIP). Two subjects underwent eight weeks of IMT. One man was referred by his senior registrar and had restrictive lung disease secondary to severe kyphoscoliosis and poliomyositis. The second individual was Ian Gough, who is a Welsh Rugby international player, second row. He had been forced to withdraw from the Wales tour of Argentina due to a spiral fracture of the radius. He was aware of Rob Howley's use of the Test of Incremental Respiratory Endurance (TIRE) IMT after dislocating his shoulder on the British Lions tour of South Africa in 1997. Rob has continued training with the device and Ian wanted to try to maintain his fitness while in a plaster cast.
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