Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PRPGP) has a prevalence of approximately 45% during pregnancy and 20-25% in the early postpartum period. Most women become pain free in the first 12 weeks after delivery, however, 5-7% do not. In a large postpartum study of prevalence for urinary incontinence (UI) [Wilson, P.D., Herbison, P., Glazener, C., McGee, M., MacArthur, C., 2002. Obstetric practice ...

Introduction : Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a condition in which the lungs experience obstruction that not fully reversible. One of independent nursing interventions dealing with decreased diaphragmatic breathing exersice relaxation technique. This technique non-pharmacological therapy can improve abdominal movement by reducing respiratory muscle activity. The purpose study w...

This study explores the physiological correlates of a highly practiced Kundalini Yoga meditator. Thoracic and abdominal breathing patterns, heart rate (HR), occipital parietal electroencephalograph (EEG), skin conductance level (SCL), and blood volume pulse (BVP) were monitored during prebaseline, meditation, and postbaseline periods. Visual analyses of the data showed a decrease in respiration...

Noninvasive monitoring of respiratory mechanics during sleep. R. Farré, J.M. Montserrat, D. Navajas. #ERS Journals Ltd 2004. ABSTRACT: The sleep apnoea–hypopnoea syndrome is characterised by recurrent obstructions of the upper airway, resulting in sleep disruption and arterial oxygen desaturations. Noninvasive assessment of respiratory mechanics during sleep is helpful in facilitating the diagn...

We evaluate the impact of changes in solar activity on three significant human psychophysiological parameters: skin conductance, electromyography (EMG), and share abdominal diaphragmatic breathing overall ventilation. Variations affecting psychophysiology due to directly document assertion that psychology, behavior, decision-making all reflect geomagnetic field alterations stem from variable ac...

 Acute inhalation or ingestion may cause nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and difficulty breathing  Acute inhalation or ingestion can also cause liver and kidney damage which in severe cases may lead to coma and death  Dermal exposure may cause irritation and contact with undiluted carbon tetrachloride may cause a burning sensation and redness  Ocular exposu...

The respiratory motion of several anatomic regions (right hemidiaphragm, left ventricle of the heart, chest wall, abdominal wall) was investigated during free breathing in 10 healthy volunteers by using multinavigator technology and real-time magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The respiratory motion shows hysteretic effects, which are strongly subject dependent and might have some effect on the q...

Introduction Breathing motion during multi-shot acquisitions causes artifacts which appear as ghosts in the reconstructed images. Various techniques for motion correction using parallel imaging have been proposed [1-5]. They reconstruct images from subdivisions of motion corrupted k-space data and average them subsequently for artifact reduction [2], replace motion corrupted k-space lines [3] o...

The aim of the study was to determine the acute effects of positive expiratory pressure (PEP) on breathing pattern, operational volumes and shortening velocity of respiratory muscles on patients with Parkinson's disease. It was evaluated 15 patients and healthy controls, by optoelectronic plethysmography, using PEP in three different levels (10, 15 and 20cmH2O). Breathing pattern changed in bot...

Thoracic impedance is modulated by events within the respiratory cycle, which represents a source of "noise" in impedance cardiography. Respiration itself, however, is a physiological rhythm of interest to psychophysiologists. We report here methods and validation for deriving impedance pneumographic measures of respiration from impedance cardiography signals, based on standard tetrapolar band ...