Abstract:
Background: Respiratory complication is the most common complication among spinal cord injured patients. It has profound effects on spinal cord injured person and their activity. Chest physiotherapy is the new intervention for the spinal cord injured patients in CRP. Objectives: The objectives are to explore the effects of respiratory problem on function and explore the opinion of the person with spinal cord injury about Chest physiotherapy. Methodology: The study was a qualitative research design to collect in-depth information of participants’ perception. Purposive sampling was used and six participants who met the inclusion criteria were selected. Semi-structured, face to face interviews were conducted to collect the data. Result and Discussion: Most of the tetraplegic patients face respiratory problem during different activity due to loss of motor and sensory function and also bowel and bladder problem. Persons with spinal cord injury get chest physiotherapy for reducing respiratory complications. Some patient get chest physiotherapy and some does not get among all the patients. Few patients have knowledge about chest physiotherapy and some has no idea. If the patients know about chest physiotherapy, they will be motivated to receive this treatment. Then their complications will be reduced and they can lead a better life. Conclusion: Respiratory complications affect the person’s normal life and activity. Physiotherapists have an important role to reduce respiratory complications. The physiotherapist can improve quality of life of the spinal cord injury patient by providing chest physiotherapy. The spinal cord injured patients feel better by continuing chest physiotherapy.
