The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Indexed in /covered by CAS, KoreaScience & DOI/Crossref:eISSN 2287-156X   pISSN 1229-0475

The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Indexed in /covered by CAS, KoreaScience & DOI/Crossref:eISSN 2287-156X pISSN 1229-0475

Table. 2.

Table. 2.

Comparison of breathing capacity and chest circumference in each groups

1 week 4 week t p
FVC (L) SBEG 3.66±0.73 3.84±0.68 -7.100 <0.001*
BBEG 3.29±0.64 3.54±0.59 -5.719 <0.001*
t 1.19 1.02
p 0.25 0.32
FEV1 (L) SBEG 3.32±0.63 3.51±0.61 -7.465 <0.001*
BBEG 2.87±0.55 3.07±0.59 -5.694 <0.001*
t 1.68 1.68
p 0.10 0.11
FEV1/FVC (%) SBEG 91.02±4.32 91.79±3.47 -0.835 0.430
BBEG 87.20±7.80 86.57±7.77 0.428 0.680
t 1.35 1.93
p 0.19 0.043*

Mean±SD: Mean±standard deviation. SBEG: Schroth breathing exercise group, BBEG: Breath-on breathing exercise group, FVC: forced vital capacity, FEV1: forced expiratory volume in 1 second. *p<0.05.

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