Influência do treinamento muscular inspiratório em idosas hipertensas com fraqueza muscular inspiratória

Lillian Meirelly Cunha de Souza; Ivan Daniel Bezerra Nogueira; Ricardo Oliveira Guerra; Gardênia Maria Holanda Ferreira; Patrícia Angélica de Miranda Silva Nogueira

doi:10.5585/conssaude.v13n1.4503

Authors

Lillian Meirelly Cunha de Souza Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Ivan Daniel Bezerra Nogueira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Ricardo Oliveira Guerra UFRN
Gardênia Maria Holanda Ferreira UFRN
Patrícia Angélica de Miranda Silva Nogueira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/conssaude.v13n1.4503

Keywords:

Elderly, Hypertension, Respiratory muscles.

Abstract

Introduction: It is common to the aging process the loss of respiratory muscle strength in heart and this process is most evident. Objectives: To measure the effects of a protocol of inspiratory muscle training in elderly hypertensive patients with respiratory muscle weakness. Materials and methods: This is a series of cases in which a protocol was applied using the Threshold ® IMT for five consecutive weeks. The evaluation included examinations of manometer, spirometry and 6MWT as well as the questionnaires Minichal and IPAQ (short version). For statistic we used t student test Results: The effectiveness of training in increasing the muscle strength was observed indirectly by the difference between the values of PImáxA (before) and PImáxD (after) training p = 0.004) . Conclusion: The training contributed to an increase in inspiratory muscle strength demonstrated by the increase in MIP, but its relationship with other variables measured is not clear.