People's Journal of Scientific Research
Published December 1, 2012 | Version v1
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Pulmonary Functions in Trained and Untrained Wind Instrument Blowers

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  • 1. Department of Physiology, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Nagpur (M.H.)
  • 2. Department of Physiology, Chirayu Medical College & Hospital, Bhopal-462030 (M.P.)

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The present cross-sectional study was designed to ascertain whether regular and trained wind instrument blowers develop higher pulmonary functions than untrained or part time blowers. The study included 155 trained & regular blowers (Group A), 100 untrained part-time blowers (Group B) and 100 non-blowers (Group C). They were investigated by a computerized spirometer (RMS medspiror). Group A subjects showed a significantly higher (p<0.001) percentage predicted value for Forced Vital capacity (FVC), Forced expiratory volume in the 1st second (FEV1 ), Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR), Maximum Voluntary Ventilation (MVV), Forced Expiratory Flow at 25% & 50% of FVC (FEF25% & FEF50%), Forced Expiratory Flow between 25% & 75% of FVC (FEF 25-75%), FEF50% of FVC, than the other two groups. However, FEV1 /FVC % in group A was not statistically higher than the other two groups (p=0.3699). Thus, regular training of wind instrument blowing increases the pulmonary functions which may be a physiological advantage of blowing.

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