Respiratory muscle training: a bibliometric analysis of 60 years’ multidisciplinary journey

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2023 · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-023-01103-0 · Published: May 1, 2023

Spinal Cord Injury Pulmonology Research Methodology & Design

Simple Explanation

Respiratory muscle training (RMT) is a specific exercise to stimulate the respiratory muscles, enhancing their strength, resistance, and endurance. RMT has been shown to improve respiratory dysfunction in various populations, including those with spinal cord injury, stroke, and chronic heart failure. The tools and techniques used in RMT have become more technically advanced, involving a trend of multidisciplinary field involvement.

Study Duration

60 Years

Participants

367 documents analyzed

Evidence Level

Not specified

Key Findings

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Research on RMT has steadily increased over the last 6 decades, attracting researchers from diverse fields like engineering and computer science.
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Collaboration between authors in different backgrounds has been observed since 2006, with non-medical source titles publishing articles pertinent to RMT.
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RMT generally improves pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength among people with SCI, utilizing a range of technology from simple spirometers to electromyography.

Research Summary

Research on RMT has steadily increased over the last 6 decades, with publications from medicine dominating the research. Since then, many more subject areas had emerged to conduct and publish research on RMT, including engineering, biochemistry and computer science. There has also been a trend of multidisciplinary study and collaboration between authors of different backgrounds and expertise, especially since 2006. RMT studies on people with SCI had shown that most publications implemented conventional RMT such as resistive and pressure threshold training.

Practical Implications

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Encouraging collaborations between researchers from different fields to enhance RMT research.

Technological Advancement

Advancing current technology and intervention in monitoring respiratory muscle performance during RMT.

Policy Implementation

Utilizing new evidence from research to create safer and better lifestyles in the community, such as smokefree policies.

Study Limitations

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Subject area categorization was directly obtained from the Scopus database.
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Some keywords such as “ventilatory muscle training”, “inspiratory muscle training” and “expiratory muscle training” were not included during the literature search process.
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Abstract was compiled together with journal.

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