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J Appl Physiol 61: 1882-1884, 1986;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 61, Issue 5 1882-1884, Copyright © 1986 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of posture on vital capacity

M. Appel, A. Childs, E. Healey, S. Markowitz, S. Wong and J. Mead

The influence of some extreme body postures on vital capacity (VC) was examined in young adult humans. Two postures required full support of body weight by the arms: arms up, hanging from a bar, and arms down with hands gripping parallel bars. Three involved muscles that flex and extend the trunk: a partial sit-up position while supine and nearly maximal spinal extension and flexion while standing. Changes at the inspiratory and expiratory volume extremes were recognized by having the subjects do two VC efforts: the first standing and the second in the posture in question while continuing to breathe on the spirometer. Control observations in which the second of a VC pair was performed in an unstressed posture allowed correction for the influence of rebreathing. The changes in corrected VC were small, the greatest being an average reduction of approximately 8% in the partial sit-up position. During full support of body weight by the arms, the VC was slightly increased due to a significant increase in the inspiratory extreme and no change in the expiratory extreme. Spinal extension produced small increases in lung volume at both extremes with no significant change in VC, whereas spinal flexion did not influence the upper extreme but did increase lung volume at the lower extreme. The changes are discussed in terms of trunk muscle action.


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