Coordination of respiratory pump and valve muscle activity is essential for normal breathing. A hallmark respiratory response to hypercapnia and hypoxia is the emergence of active exhalation, characterized by abdominal ...

This study objective was to verify the behavior of three portions of the abdominal rectus muscle through a quantitative analysis of the eletromyographic signal in different types of abdominal exercises. Ten young male ...

Evaluating the ability to rectify and maintain lumbar adjustment can contribute toward the understanding of the behavior of abdominal muscles and their participation in the stability of pelvic muscles in dancers during the ...

Evaluating the ability to rectify and maintain lumbar adjustment can contribute toward the understanding of the behavior of abdominal muscles and their participation in the stability of pelvic muscles in dancers during the ...

Introduction: Among human development stages, adolescence comprises the period in which intense somatic and behavioural changes occur1. In this period of life, the presence of detrimental health habits can be consolidated ...

Physical activity is a protective factor for autonomic dysfunction. However, whether this occurs in adolescents with abdominal obesity is still unclear. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the association between ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between the clustering of physical inactivity with abdominal obesity and public health care expenditure in Brazilian adults. The sample was composed of 963 patients ...

Active expiration represents an important mechanism to improve ventilation in conditions of augmented ventilatory demand, such as hypercapnia. While a rostral ventromedullary region, the parafacial respiratory group (pFRG), ...

Background: Obesity is currently a multifactorial public health problem. Its increase is directly related to comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and others. Objective: To ...