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Systematic Reviews of Physiotherapy for Cystic Fibrosis
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of using physiotherapy as a treatment for cystic fibrosis.
Reviewed November 2011
4 Resources Found
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| Title: | The use of vibrating devices to help people with cystic fibrosis clear their airways of mucus |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Excess mucus in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis can lead to constant infection and inflammation. This damages the airways and results in a progressive loss in lung function. Chest physiotherapy attempts to clear excess mucus from the lungs of p... |
| Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Title: | A comparison of usual chest physiotherapy to other methods of airway clearance in people with cystic fibrosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Excess mucus is produced in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. This leads to recurrent infection and tissue damage. It is important to clear this mucus using drugs and various chest physiotherapy techniques. We aimed to compare the effects of dif... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Chest physiotherapy compared to no chest physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The lungs of people with cystic fibrosis produce excess mucus. This leads to repeated infection and tissue damage in the lungs. It is important to clear the mucus using drugs and chest physiotherapy (CPT). Physiotherapy clears mucus by various technique... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Not enough strong evidence about the effects of positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices for chest physiotherapy for people with cystic fibrosis |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Cystic fibrosis (CF) causes frequent respiratory infection and blocks the airways with mucus secretions. Chest physiotherapy is frequently used to try to clear these secretions out of the lungs. Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices provide pressur... |
| Date: | Feb 2006 |
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