Weak For Recommendation
Deep breathing exercises may be provided to improve lung volumes in people with SCI.
| Deep breathing exercises (v no intervention) on lung volumes in people with SCI who have respiratory muscle weakness | |||||||
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| P | People with SCI who have respiratory muscle weakness | Evidence recommendation No evidence recommendation Reason: No RCTs | Strong opinion statement FOR Deep breathing exercises may be provided to improve lung volumes in people with SCI. Clinical note: People with SCI and respiratory muscle weakness should focus on respiratory strength training exercises, rather than deep breathing exercises. |
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| I | Deep breathing exercises | ||||||
| C | No intervention | Consensus-based opinion statement Weak for (100%) |
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| O | Lung volume | ||||||
The Australian and NZ SCI Physiotherapy guideline committee recommends deep breathing exercises to improve lung volumes in people with SCI. However, people with SCI and respiratory muscle weakness should focus on respiratory strength training exercises, rather than deep breathing exercises.
This is a consensus-based opinion statement supported by the opinions of the experts. There are no randomized controlled trials on this topic. The guideline states:
Deep breathing exercises may be provided to improve lung volumes in people with SCI.
This statement was formed by considering the opinions of the experts alongside other factors. The other factors that were considered were benefits and harms, values and preferences, resource use, equity, accessibility, and feasibility. This is a consensus-based opinion statement. Consensus-based opinion statements are less robust than evidence-based recommendations. They can be strong or weak. This is a weak consensus-based opinion statement which means that the guideline panel is confident they can probably recommend deep breathing exercises to improve lung volumes in people with SCI based on opinion.
To learn more about the research related to this intervention go to the research summary tab on the website.