{"id":959,"date":"2025-02-14T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/?page_id=959"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:55:44","slug":"chest-physiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/research\/completed-projects\/chest-physiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chest Physiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To assess the value of chest physiotherapy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a small study looking at the effects of introducing regular chest physiotherapy, over a 3 month period, to patients who had not previously done such physiotherapy on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Conclusions:<\/strong>\u00a0Chest physiotherapy improves exercise tolerance and health related quality of life (reported through quality of life questionnaires). The graph shows the physiotherapy group improved their walking distance by 55 metres compared to 5 metres in the group that did not receive regular chest physiotherapy. No impact on the results of spirometry tests (breathing tests). Larger studies are required to explore whether regular chest physiotherapy has an impact on frequency of chest infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patient Implications:&nbsp;<\/strong>Chest physiotherapy \u2013 and clearance techniques more generally \u2013 are effective and worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference:&nbsp;<\/strong>European Respiratory Journal 2009;34(5):1086-1092<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2025\/02\/PT1-235x300-1.png\" alt=\"PT1 235x300\" class=\"wp-image-960\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To assess the value of chest physiotherapy This was a small study looking at the effects of introducing regular chest physiotherapy, over a 3 month period, to patients who had not previously done such physiotherapy on a regular basis. Key Conclusions:&nbsp;Chest physiotherapy improves exercise tolerance and health related quality of life (reported through quality of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":933,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-959","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/blog\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"To assess the value of chest physiotherapy This was a small study looking at the effects of introducing regular chest physiotherapy, over a 3 month period, to patients who had not previously done such physiotherapy on a regular basis. Key Conclusions:&nbsp;Chest physiotherapy improves exercise tolerance and health related quality of life (reported through quality of","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959\/revisions\/964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/bronchiectasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}