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What is respiratory physiotherapy? And does it work? Chest physiotherapy is not the tip, tap and cough that commonly passes as its definition. It includes problem identification and management by education, pain relief, accurately controlled activity, use of mechanical aids and listening to patients in distress. It is ineffective to intervene with a process as personal as breathing without attention to the person as a whole.
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Hough, A. (1996). Physiotherapy management. In: Physiotherapy in Respiratory Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3049-1_5
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