Keerthivasan, A (2013) A Comparitive study on Positve Expiratiory Pressure Technique and Autogenic Drainage on Bronchial Hygiene in Bronchial Asthma. Masters thesis, P.P.G. College of Physiotherapy, Coimbatore.
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Bronchial Asthma is one of the common COPD disorder and is defined as chronic cough and expectoration which persists for at least 3 months period for at least 2 consecutive years. The cause of Bronchial Asthma is related to long term irritation of the trachea bronchial tree. The most common cause of irritation is cigarette smoking. Other causes are air pollution, bronchial infections and occupational diseases. OBJECTIVES: 1. To find out the effect of positive expiratory pressure technique in improving the bronchial hygiene in moderate Bronchial Asthma patients. 2. To find out the effect of Autogenic drainage in improving the bronchial hygiene in moderate Bronchial Asthma patients. 3. To compare the effectiveness of positive expiratory pressure technique and Autogenic drainage in improve the bronchial hygiene in moderate Bronchial Asthma patients METHODS: A total number of 30 subjects were involved for this study with consideration of inclusion and exclusion criteria. The subjects were divided into positive expiratory pressure technique group(A) and autogenic drainage group(B) with 15 subjects in each group. Before treatment pre test is conducted for both group A and group B and the result are noted. After a brief demonstration about the positive expiratory pressure technique by flutter device and autogenic drainage in Group A and Group B, the post test was conducted. The result were recorded to compare the pre test and post test results. RESULTS: The results of this study is in accordance with Andreas Pfleger [et. al] (1992) who suggested that airway clearance techniques are used to aid in mucus clearance in a variety of diseases such as COPD and new techniques like Positive expiratory pressure technique and autogenic drainage can be used to rely heavily on basic airway clearance. CONCLUSIONS: The study concludes that the positive expiratory pressure technique using flutter device eliminates mucous from the bronchial airway and thus improves bronchial hygiene in moderate Bronchial Asthma patients.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | Reg.No.27113225 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Comparitive study, Positve Expiratiory Pressure Technique, Autogenic Drainage, Bronchial Hygiene in Bronchial Asthma |
| Subjects: | PHYSIOTHERAPY > Physiotherapy in Cardio-Respiratory |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2020 11:20 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2020 11:20 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/13169 |
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