Effect of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Functional Capacity, Glucose Control and Heart Rate Recovery in Physically Inactive Diabetic Patients.”

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) has become a rising epidemic in the past few years, surging in the last few decades with the rise of obesity, and has become one of the leading causes of death worldwide Respiratory system dysfunction, among other multisystem dysfunctions, are linked to (T2DM). They exhibit lower lung volumes, impaired exercise capacity, and central and peripheral muscular weakness. However, the inspiratory muscle is rarely assessed in routine clinical practice, which could lead to respiratory symptoms associated with inspiratory muscle weakening being unnoticed. A total number of 43 people with type 2 DM participated in this study. Assessment was done before beginning Inspiratory muscle training and after 8 weeks of intervention. There was significant improvement in functional capacity (p <0.001), heart rate recovery of patient(p<0.001) after 8 weeks of Inspiratory Muscle Training.  Blood glucose levels (Hba1c) did not show significant difference when compared with other parameters (p-0.0077). The study concludes that Inspiratory muscle training improves functional capacity and heart rate recovery in Type II diabetes mellitus patients.