Pilates Exercise and Inhalation Injury Post Burn

Conventional chest physical therapy: The patients performed four series of five breath with 3 seconds of sustained breathing interspersed with periods of quite breathing followed by two or three coughs or huffs (with wound support by a pillow or his/her hands), twice a day in the first two postburned days and once a day from the third to the tenth days.

The Pilates technique, which stretched laterally and to the back, stressed costal breathing, in which the ribs climb and drop throughout the ventilatory stream. The transverse muscle had to work harder to avoid abdominal distension, provide more support to the diaphragm to promote lower rib movement, and provide more diaphragmatic excursion, During the expiratory phase, the transversus abdominis, the multifidus and the pelvic floor musculature were contracted.