Background: Validating walking trails is essential to promote physical activity (PA) safely and confidently in people with COPD.
Objectives: We aimed to validate predetermined light, moderate, and vigorous intensities of walking trails in people with COPD.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included individuals with COPD walking in predetermined light, moderate and vigorous intensity trails.
This article summarises some of the outstanding sessions that were (co)organised by the Allied Respiratory Professionals Assembly during the 2023 European Respiratory Society International Congress. Two sessions from each Assembly group are outlined, covering the following topics: Group 9.01 focuses on respiratory physiology techniques, specifically on predicted values and reference equations, device development and novel applications of cardiopulmonary exercise tests; Group 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to investigate the efficacy of concentric, eccentric, and isometric exercise protocols on the postneedling soreness (PNS) after the dry needling (DN) of latent myofascial trigger points (MTrP) in the medial gastrocnemius muscle. A randomized clinical trial was carried out. Volunteers, ≥18 years old, with a latent MTrP in the medial gastrocnemius muscle were included.
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