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hyperventilation
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hyperventilation

In medicine, an abnormally rapid resting respiratory rate. It occurs in patients with chest and heart diseases, such as severe chronic obstructive lung disease, because of a lack of oxygen or an increase in carbon dioxide in the blood.



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0 performed an elaborate ventilatory muscle training program (via isocapnic hyperpnea, pressure-gauge strength training, breathing calisthenics, abdominal strengthening exercises, and a Threshold inspiratory muscle trainer(*)) three to seven times a week for 12 weeks and improved their ventilatory muscle strength and endurance as well as their submaximal and maximal exercise capacities.
Inspiratory muscle training in patients with chronic heart failure ... by Dec, G. William / Physical Therapy
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The cardiopulmonary system and movement dysfunction by Peel, Claire / Physical Therapy
In summary, investigators have used either inspiratory resistive loads or isocapnic hyperpnea as a training stimulus.
Inspiratory muscle training in the patient with neuromuscular disease by Tzelepis, George E. / Physical Therapy
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