Training Isolated Respiratory in Rehabilitation

A game for training of breath (TRABR) for continuous
monitoring of pulmonary ventilation during the patients’ therapy
focuses especially on monitoring of their ventilation processes. It is
necessary to detect, monitor and differentiate abdominal and thoracic
breathing during the therapy. It is a fun form of rehabilitation where
the patient plays and also practicing isolated breathing. Finally the
game to practice breath was designed to evaluate whether the patient
uses two types of breathing or not.

• Marketa Kotova
• Jana Kolarova
• Ludek Zalud
• Petr Dobsak

• Pulmonary ventilation
• thoracic breathing
• abdominal breathing
• breath monitoring using pressure sensors
• game TRABR (TRAining of BReath).

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