The major limitation to exercise performance in patients with chronic lung diseases is an
issue of great importance since identifying the factors that prevent these patients from …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? The work presented here focuses mostly on
testing the theory of blood flow redistribution from the locomotor to the respiratory muscles …

Simple Summary Respiratory muscle training (RMT) improves physical performance through
increased efficiency of the muscles implicated in respiration, an aspect that preserves the …

The purpose of the present study was to elucidate the effect of increasing expiratory muscle
work on sympathetic vasoconstrictor outflow and arterial blood pressure (BP) during …

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in combination with indocyanine green (ICG) dye has
recently been used to measure respiratory muscle blood flow (RMBF) in humans. This …

Assessing inspiratory muscle deoxygenation and blood flow can provide insight into
anaerobic stress, recruitment strategies and mechanisms of inspiratory muscle limitation …

In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), one of the proposed
mechanisms for improving exercise tolerance, when work of breathing is experimentally …

In this study, we wished to determine whether the observed reduction in quadriceps muscle
oxygen availability, reported during repetitive bouts of isometric exercise in simulated sailing …

In patients with airway obstruction, an increase in breathing frequency at rest is commonly
associated with a dynamic hyperinflation (DH). In such a situation, intercostal muscle …

To synthesize evidence for prefrontal cortex (PFC), quadriceps, and respiratory muscle
oxygenation using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during cycling in individuals with …