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This book which is providing about short term Pulmonary Rehabilitation has been shown to have beneficial effects in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Studies have also shown the unique effects caused by Respiratory Muscle Stretch Gymnastics in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hence the study aimed to find out the combined effects of short term pulmonary rehabilitation with respiratory muscle stretch gymnastics. There were no statistically significant differences in short term pulmonary rehabilitation with RMSG group and only short term pulmonary rehabilitation group after a period of 3 weeks.

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Thangavelu, Karthikeyan
Dr.Karthikeyan who have completed D.LITT from Tumkur University, Tumkur, Karnataka and PhD from Ramakrishna mission Vivekananda University,coimbatore . Presently working as a clinician cum researcher at Physiotherapy center at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. He has published more than 60 research papers and 17 books in reputed publisher.

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