Late Breaking Abstract - Effects of respiratory muscle training on quality of life, physical function, and psychological state in Post-COVID Syndrome

ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Allied Respiratory Professionals assembly

“…D el C orral N uñez- F lores et al [ 17 ] presented late-breaking work from a double-blind randomised controlled trial involving post-COVID-19 subjects, where the effects of high-intensity home-based respiratory muscle training over 8 weeks were studied on quality of life, physical and pulmonary function, and psychological and cognitive state. The results showed that subjects in the experimental group improved quality of life in regard to breathlessness, muscle fatigue, respiratory muscle strength, cardiorespiratory endurance, anxiety and depression levels, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and cognition function when compared to the control group, but no between-group differences were observed in pulmonary function and peripheral muscle strength.…”