Tag: musculoskeletal

Complications of Cough: Recommendations

Cough reflex sensitivity was not measured in this health-related quality-of-life study (or in the other three studies just reviewed). Consequently, while tussigenic inhalation challenges have shown that healthy women and women with chronic cough have lower cough thresholds than healthy men and men with chronic cough, it is not known whether this finding of higher […]

Complications of Cough: Study

The second study utilized a cough-specific qual-ity-of-life questionnaire (CQLQ) that assessed the 28 most common reasons why patients seek medical attention because of coughing. It has been shown to be a reliable and valid tool for evaluating the impact of acute and chronic cough on adult patients, and a valid method by which to assess […]

Complications of Cough: Spectrum of Complications

The adverse occurrences include cardiovascular, constitutional, GI, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, neurologic, ophthalmologic, psychosocial, respiratory, and skin complications, and a decrease in health-related quality of life (Table 1). This spectrum of complications was determined with the aid of an Ovid MEDLINE literature review (through March 2004) for all studies published in the English language, including case series […]

Complications of Cough

The complications of cough stem from physiologic events. It is thought that there are usually three phases involved in the cough mechanism. The first is an inspiratory phase, which ends before closure of the glottis; the second is a compressive phase that is characterized by contraction of thoracic and abdominal musculature against a fixed diaphragm; […]