A Study to Determine the Effect of 90/90 Bridge with Ball and Balloon Exercise in Asymptomatic Subjects with Suboptimal Breathing: A Randomized Control Trial

To find the effectiveness of 90/90 bridge with ball and balloon exercise in asymptomatic subjects with suboptimal breathing.

Randomized control trial

42 asymptomatic subjects within the age group of 18 to 25 years. 20 subjects selected on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria, Lottery method was used to assign the subjects, to experimental group (N=10) and control group (N=10).

Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and FEV1/FVC ratio.

Asymptomatic subjects with suboptimal breathing with reduced FVC, FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio were included. Therapeutic exercise called 90/90 bridge with ball and balloon exercise was taught to the subjects in experimental (n=10) group for a period of 6 weeks once in a day with 4 repetition, 5 days in a week. The pre and post exercise spirometry comparison was done to find the effectiveness of 90/90 bridge with ball and balloon exercise in asymptomatic subjects with suboptimal breathing. Control group (n=10) had no specific intervention.

Post exercise there was a significant improvement in FEV1 (p value 0.002), FEV1/FVC (p value 0.005) and no significant improvement in FVC (p value 0.170) in experimental group whereas in controlled group no significant improvement was seen in all the parameters.

90/90 bridge with ball and balloon exercise helps in optimizing breathing in asymptomatic individual with suboptimal breathing. The present study showed that 90/90 BBE exercise is effective and improves the lung volumes in individuals with reduced lung volumes and suboptimal breathing. Individuals who were taught exercise showed significant improvement in FEV1 and FEV1/FVC where as in control group no significant improvement was seen.