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Combined Effects of Blow Bottle Technique and Percussion Technique in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating blow bottle and percussion for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Completed, enrolled 30 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
It will be a randomized control trial. Participants will be recruited according to inclusion criteria and will be allocated into 2 groups using convenience sampling technique. Group 1 will be treated with percussion technique for 30 min and group 2 with blow bottle technique combined with percussion technique for 30 min at DHQ Teaching Hospital Gujranwala. Intervention will be carried out for total 4 weeks of duration with 3 sessions per week. Outcome measures such as dyspnea, breathlessness, sputum and cough, O2 and pulse rate, expiratory flow rate will be measured by tools as mMRC, BCSS, peak flow meter respectively. Assessment will be done before and after intervention and result will be analyzed using statistical package for social sciences SPSS 20.
Study Details
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Interventions
When you blow through a tube into water in a bottle, the pressure in the airways increases. This opens up the passageways between bronchioles, allowing air to flow behind the mucus and push it into the larger airways. This way, it will be easy to remove the mucus by coughing or huffing.
Percussion technique should be performed for about 30 seconds and simultaneously with no more than three or four lower thoracic expansion exercises. * Do this for a total of 10 breaths, * Perform two huffs, and * Cough. * Close their mouth around the tube and exhale slightly forcefully for 3 seconds to produce bubbles. Such exhalations were conducted in two sets of ten, with a five-minute pause in between. For each subject, a fresh, disposable tube and bottle were utilized