… basic and advanced principles underlying respiratory muscle ultrasound with an emphasis
… respiratory muscle pump and possible therapeutic consequences. Ideally, respiratory muscle …

… Multiple tests of respiratory muscle function increase the diagnostic precision of respiratory
muscle weakness. In addition to assessing respiratory muscle weakness in patients with NMD…

… Therefore, evaluating the respiratory pump in patients with neuromuscular diseases can be a
… and assessing the respiratory muscles that may facilitate the respiratory evaluation of these …

… respiratory muscles or the diaphragm itself, respectively. However, these are only indirect
measurements of respiratory muscles … for detecting reduced compound muscle action potential …

… 2) and Black and Hyatt (3), and it is only in the last 20 yr that such measurements have
been commonly applied in clinical assessment. Initially the measurements were laboratory-based …

… to use in clinical assessment. Accordingly, it has recently been demonstrated in a clinical
trial that specific respiratory muscle training is able to improve respiratory muscle endurance. …

… It is unknown which respiratory muscles are mainly activated by respiratory muscle training.
… muscle (SCM), parasternal muscles (PARA) and the diaphragm (DIA) in randomized order. …

… Acute treatment of respiratory muscle failure involves respiratory muscle rest through
mechanical ventilation and removal of noxious influences (infection, metabolic disarray) , whereas …

… In addition, loss of tonic activity of the abdominal muscles might shift … respiratory muscles.
The corollary is that, in the presence of a motor neuron disease and global respiratory muscle …

… study was to assess respiratory muscle strength by volitional … Furthermore, we aimed to
quantify respiratory muscle … lung volume measurements to assess the potential advantage and …