Sentence examples for chest therapy from inspiring English sources
She had been sticking with her treatment regimen — twice-a-day manual chest therapy by one of her parents, inhaled medications using a nebulizer immediately afterward, and vitamins.
The chief difficulty for people with CF is sticking with the laborious daily regimen of care, particularly the manual chest therapy.
Studies eventually showed that Warwick's device was at least as effective as manual chest therapy, and was used far more consistently.
A respiratory therapist explained that they would need to do manual chest therapy at least twice a day, half-hour sessions in which they would strike — "percuss" — their daughter's torso with a cupped hand at each of fourteen specific locations on the front, back, and sides in order to loosen the thick secretions and help her to cough them up.
To evaluate the effect of 4 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) versus chest physical therapy (CPT) on the preoperative functional capacity and postoperative respiratory morbidity of patients undergoing lung cancer resection.
Kevin's dream-death is only one of endless images of suicide on "The Leftovers": Nora has a prostitute shoot her in the chest, shock therapy after she loses her children; Kevin pulls plastic bags over his head, then tears them off at the last minute; Laurie appears to drown herself, accidentally on purpose.
In addition, there is also the possibility that the findings reported here are due to other factors that track with age such as antibiotic use, chest physical therapy, adherence, nutrition or other factors.
In addition, chest physical therapy (PT) is often prescribed as part of the treatment regime.
Furthermore, one trial described a significantly lower FEV1 in patients who received chest percussion therapy compared with controls [ 7].
During chest drainage therapy, we cultured neither gram-positive bacilli nor any other microbes from multiple pleural effusion samples.
Chest radiographs may be useful for determining the presence of atelectasis and help determine where chest physical therapy needs to be directed.
