Columnist Caroline Gainer discusses a study whose findings suggested that respiratory muscle strength training could help ...

1 Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Background: Although quadriceps weakness is well recognised in chronic obstructive ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease of the pulmonary ... These data can directly lead to meaningful clinical interventions to aid patients with PAH. Skeletal muscle pathology likely can be ...

We hypothesised that long acting bronchodilators improve symptoms by reducing dynamic hyperinflation and work of breathing, as measured by respiratory muscle pressure-time products. WDCM is a Clinical ...

One of the best complements to running? Weight training. While many forms of cross training can help support your miles, lifting weights can bolster your performance in a unique way. Still ...

But, did you know you don’t actually have to step foot on any of these to improve your cardio fitness? Probably music to your ...

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience progressive airflow limitation ... Data were also extracted for physiological measures of training effects, skeletal muscle ...

But while it's known for levelling up your flexibility, toning your body and boosting your all-important posture, we're often ...

School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales, UK Correspondence to: Mr Gething School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Llantwit Road, Cardiff CF37 1DL, Wales, UK; ...

Serious bodybuilders and weightlifters may even follow "pump training" protocols, wherein the primary goal is achieving a muscle pump. Pump training focuses solely on muscle contraction and ...