Real-González Y, López-Hernández M, Cabrera-Gómez JA, González-Murgado M, Díaz-Márquez R, Armenteros-Herrera N, Álvarez-Lami L

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 184-188
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The persons with fundamental cervical injuries present a respiratory restrictive insufficiency of type, demonstrating symptoms as: air lack during the changes of position or transfers, hipofonía, weakness to cough and to expel the secretions, low physical capacity, motion sicknesses, nauseas, alterations of fluencia verbally, among others. There was created a program of respiratory rehabilitation to increase the respiratory capacity and the coordination fonorrespiratoria. I target: To evaluate the efficiency of a program of respiratory rehabilitation for persons with fundamental cervical injuries. Method: Study of quasiexperimental intervention with a group, in persons attended in the Clinic Raquimedular. They were evaluated to the beginning and after the intervention, comparing the results. The system SPSS, it was used for the statistical analysis. Results: men’s predominance 67.5%, average ages 29.95 ± 10.33 (15-55) years, time of evolution 31.98 ± 24.67 (4-96) months. The most affected cervical segments were: C5-C6. In the coordination telephone number respiratory there was significant improvement: emission(issue) of series of words (15.6 ± 11.8) to the beginning versus (20.5 ± 12) p = 0.0000068; emission(issue) of series of numbers (20.8±12.2) to the beginning versus (32.8±18.2) p = 0.0000005 ultimately; maximum time of phonation (12.1 ± 6.1) to the beginning versus (16.6 ± 9.6) p = 0.0008 ultimately. In the respiratory capacity, there was significant improvement: inspirometría (1102.5 ± 171.7) vs. (1140 ± 139.2) p = 0.05; spirometry (1557.5 ± 787.0) vs. (1902.5 ± 853.5) p = 0.000098. Conclusions: The program of respiratory rehabilitation increases significantly the respiratory capacity and the phonorespiratory coordination in persons with fundamental cervical injuries.

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