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Desiderio Cano Porras

Tilburg University
Verified email at tilburguniversity.edu
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Effects of aerobic training combined with respiratory muscle stretching on the functional exercise capacity and thoracoabdominal kinematics in patients with COPD: a …

JT Wada, E Borges-Santos, DC Porras… - … journal of chronic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background Patients with COPD present a major recruitment of the inspiratory muscles,
predisposing to chest incoordination, increasing the degree of dyspnea and impairing their …

Effect of volume-oriented versus flow-oriented incentive spirometry on chest wall volumes, inspiratory muscle activity, and thoracoabdominal synchrony in the elderly

AC Lunardi, DC Porras, RCC Barbosa… - Respiratory …, 2014 - rc.rcjournal.com
BACKGROUND: Aging causes physiological and functional changes that impair pulmonary
function. Incentive spirometry is widely used for lung expansion, but the effects of volume-…

Volume rather than flow incentive spirometry is effective in improving chest wall expansion and abdominal displacement using optoelectronic plethysmography

…, AC Lunardi, CCBM da Silva, DC Porras… - Respiratory …, 2013 - rc.rcjournal.com
BACKGROUND: Incentive spirometers are widely used in clinical practice and classified as
flow-oriented (FIS) and volume-oriented (VIS). Until recently the respiratory inductive …

Clinical efficacy of a virtual reality tool for the treatment of obesity: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

D Anastasiadou, M Slater, B Spanlang, DC Porras… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Previous research has shown that it is feasible to integrate motivational interviewing
techniques with behavioural and psychological interventions for the treatment of obesity…

Dynamic hyperinflation and exercise limitations in obese asthmatic women

…, PD Freitas, AG Silva, DC Porras… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Obese individuals and patients with asthma can develop dynamic hyperinflation (DH)
during exercise; however, no previous study has investigated DH as a factor associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Thoracoabdominal asynchrony: Two methods in healthy, COPD, and interstitial lung disease patients

MC Pereira, DC Porras, AC Lunardi, CCBM da Silva… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Thoracoabdominal asynchrony is the nonparallel motion of the ribcage and
abdomen. It is estimated by using respiratory inductive plethysmography and, recently, using …

Comparison of distinct incentive spirometers on chest wall volumes, inspiratory muscular activity and thoracoabdominal synchrony in the elderly

AC Lunardi, DC Porras, RCC Barbosa… - Respiratory …, 2013 - rc.rcjournal.com
The aging process is characterized by physiological and functional modifications that impair
pulmonary function. Incentive spirometry (IS) has been widely used in clinical practice for …

Upward perturbations trigger a stumbling effect

DC Porras, B Heimler, JV Jacobs, SK Naor… - Human Movement …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Vertical perturbations are one major cause of falling. Incidentally, while conducting
a comprehensive study comparing effects of vertical versus horizontal perturbations, we …

Is the room moving? muscle responses following visual perturbations

DC Porras, JV Jacobs, R Inzelberg… - 2019 International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… For SC and DC conditions, we observed a 100% response for all muscles (ie all participants
surpassed baseline-based thresholds at least in one repetition of each type of perturbation). …

Gait adaptation to conflictive visual flow in virtual environments

DC Porras, M Plotnik, R Inzelberg… - … Conference on Virtual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interaction between visual perception and proprioception is essential during locomotion.
Manipulating visual flow and surface inclination facilitates the investigation of the …