researchers evaluated a one-repetition maximum test protocol for measuring maximum inspiratory pressure in patients with COPD the expense of manovacuometers is a challenge new methods that offer both a simple interface and a reduced cost are highly sought after Fabero-Garrido spoke with Physician’s Weekly (PW) about the findings of the work Fabero-Garrido: This study’s most important finding is that the 1RM method of assessing PIMax [maximal inspiratory mouth pressure] in people with COPD appears to generate similar results to those directly evaluated by a manovacuometer (the gold standard method for this measurement) Although it generates some overestimation of the PIMax values the difference is so small that the error is carried over when calculating percentages for training loads The study includes a detailed description of the protocol for calculating the 1RM indicating the exact intensities for each attempt It is designed to be as time-efficient as possible for the clinician allowing more time dedicated to the therapeutic act Knowing the patients’ maximal strength on inspiration is key but knowing this calculation is less important than ensuring they are willing to train and can improve their health the 1RM protocol only requires the IMT [inspiratory muscle training] device and no other devices Considering that the manovacuometers on the market are above 1500 euros we think this protocol could be applied more widely bringing the use and therapeutic benefits of IMT to more clinics and IMT using threshold devices improves inspiratory muscle strength and quality of life while decreasing dyspnea That is the conclusion of one of the most up-to-date meta-analyses regarding IMT and COPD IMT is not often implemented in physiotherapy practice We believe that this study helps to overcome one of the main barriers to implementing IMT: the high costs of manovacuometers (usually higher than the monthly salary of a physiotherapist) and accessible PIMax assessment protocol such as the one validated in this study we believe that implementing this training modality could now be expanded even more so in developing countries where resources are still more limited Although this validation occurs in the context of COPD the benefits of IMT are already evident in other respiratory IMT even has positive effects on athletes’ performance Further research is needed to see if this protocol is equally valid in these other health conditions or if it needs to be modified New Protocol for Evaluating Maximum Inspiratory Pressure: Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability Fabero-Garrido has indicated to Physician’s Weekly that he has no financial interests to disclose The latest articles and insights from your colleagues in your specialty(ies) of choice SUBSCRIBE NOW View all newsletters Insights from the leaders in medical research Subscribe to our free Newsletters to receive weekly emails and even get a laugh or two from our medical cartoons SUBSCRIBE NOW 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supporter of the festival and that he continued to carry on what his father “I think Italian heritage is a lot of giving,” he said “I’ve been in charge of a lot of fundraisers The most important thing my dad taught me was to always treat someone with respect I was at the first Italian Festival we ever had when there were 10 of us there,” he said my mom and dad are having a big party up in heaven.” was also named chairman of the festival’s board Monday His father had served on the original board in 1983 and Filberto’s son also currently serves on the board making it a multi-generational affair for the Filbertos “We have three generations of our family on the board of directors This is a wonderful organization to work with will see the return of fan-favorite “Little Italy,” a section of the festival set aside exclusively for Italian food Sparachane added that the thing he was most looking forward to with the Italian Festival was that it was returning at all the event serves as as good a reason as any to reunite with old friends and family it was really good to see all the people come together,” he said “… We always called it a big reunion ‘When is it this year?’ It’s always the same – fourth weekend (of July) There’s so many people coming back to see their old friends It’s a really special time of the year.” to bring their big summer event back this year but we have people from all heritages that come,” she said “We’re pretty excited and we hope people show up Members of the Undo’s Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival join Italian-American of the Year Herk Sparachane According to preliminary investigations by the Ohio State Highway Patrol has introduced another bill to help families save money without tax penalties | https://www.theintelligencer.net | 1500 Main Street Archive TECHNOLOGY Posted in: Comics | Tagged: , , will tackle New Age thinking and eating meat To be published on the 26th of October 2023 Asterix And The White Iris  will see positive thinking and personal development as philosophical concepts introducing New Age thinking to the satirical comic book about an isolated village of ancient Gauls surviving against the French-invading Roman Empire The volumes continue to be drawn by Didier Conrad in the first century BC, the White Iris is the name of a new school of thought individual development. Among his precepts: "To light up the forest the flowering of a single iris is enough." The Roman emperor Julius Caesar has the idea of ​​instilling this state of mind in his demoralized troops but what no one has foreseen is that this philosophy And dividing Asterix's village into pro and anti-White Iris reflecting current trends regarding modern culture wars and populist politics but also the cultural battles of the sixties and seventies No doubting which side Obelix will be on when it comes to wild boar eating the chief's wife Impedimenta (in the English translation) is very much open to the new movement "I am not too New Age but the album does not want to be critical of all such movements As long as personal development has positive effects I want to treat this contemporary phenomenon as Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny did at the time. For example they talked about capitalism and the concentration of companies caricature the English with their big teeth you almost need a dictionary on your desk to know what you have the right to joke about or not." Either way, Asterix remains far too much of a juggernaut to ever be cancelled. The White Iris will have a first print run of five million copies and each volume usually reaches around nine or ten million copies sold after further print runs Archive REMODELING-RENOVATION The collective 1000 GESTALTEN organized the performance that we bring today the performance shows several hundred people wandering in the streets of Hamburg until stripped of the ties of a society that has lost its feeling Archive Art House in Cope by Patrick Dillon is a residence located above a hill in Copé Weeks before its closure the French Pavilion or as its creator Xavier Veilhan names "Studio Venezia" curated by the artist Cristian Marclay and Lionel Bovier has been one of the sensations of the 57th edition of the biennial of contemporary art in Venice Archive Pavilions "Casa Montaña" by [baragaño] bets on industrial process in a house built almost entirely in Madrid,to later be transferred to Valdés Archive HOUSING The architectural studio Otxotorena Arquitectos has been in charge of the rehabilitation and reform of this old single family mansion that from now on will welcome a new residential use as Dortmitory School Closing weekend in Amsterdam for the exhibition an exhibition on the construction of memory and repression in the Argentinean dictatorship by the artist Aimée Zito Lema We present one of the buildings open to visitors during the last weekend of September within the framework of the Open House Madrid This is the house of the painter Lucio Muñoz by Fernando Higueras Fernando Higueras Díaz's work in his early days around the concept of "the artist's house" the year of his degree and when he presents the proposal for "Residencia de Artistas en el Monte del Pardo "To the competition of the National Prize of Architecture Fernando initiated a series of houses in the Sierra de Navacerrada among several proposals for artists such as Nuria Espert Between the late Francoism and a certain degree of internationalization Immersed in the dense and dry vegetation of the Sierra (in Calle Jardines No 13 of Torrelodones) is located La Casa Lucio Muñoz a house in which the stone stands out as the main building material and its enormous decks many of them in cantilever and currently covered by ferns and climbing plants The whole area is surrounded by large cypress trees The construction of the house began in 1969 and was completed in 1971 a time in which the influences of the organicist architecture of Amercian Frank Lloyd Wright had arrived in different ways who always mentioned that at that moment "the academic was to make a Mies" the largest with its own bathroom and the other two with shared bathroom In parallel there is a corridor with wardrobes which goes from the bedrooms to the access area and its unfortunate view to an oak (cut a year and a half after the house is finished) On the opposite side and returning and following down the hallway the house unfolds to the left where is the studio.The experience of the constructive stacking used in Casa MánriqueThe Lucio house holds on of the constructive stacking proposed in Casa Manrique A very characteristic constructive system with double beams supported in its length following the direction on the stone wall and over them lying the heads of prestressed beams creating cantilevers which later would be improved in other projects achiving to fly a third of its proper length concrete slabs serve as a forged floor and the scrapping of an old ship does the tile flooring allowed to dominate the uneven ground and permited great overhangs opening to the slope "It is an organic architecture adapting it self to the conditions it organizes as soon as it able to unfold in space and time" (1) who detest/abhored a house which looked like if it was made by an architect In Casa Lucio Higueras he takes advantage of the experience of Casa Mánrique and he incorporates a working area developing the typology of house-workshop 'Forms of Art and Architecture: The fortune of the first Higueras is a sort of thematic series of' Houses of artists' of the start of the sixties solved with some contained repetition and with some value of an interested glance to Frank Lloyd Wright and to the logic Primary of the constructive material disposed on the rocky place also called the "pedriza" There will be a catalytic element in Higueras architecture the constructive solution (In stacking and later on in-situ structures) as core idea and literally axis that expand his buildings the constructive structure (constructive geometry) presented in his works is reflected here by a constructive set going beyond the geometric scheme and becoming a system which is able to colonise spaces If in the houses of artists typologies the whole constructive solution is present in a more primitive way with beams stacked up generating cantilevers expanding in Lanzarote (One of several contacts that had given him Cesar Manrique Higueras always counted him as his savior as architect) The womb design is more complex and will develop its final form in the proposal of the competition for the multifunctional building of the museum of Monaco.In this sense the great house Lucio allows an approach from one of his best works to his project genesis Materialidad de la vivienda para Lucio Muñoz y Amalia Avia". Revista, ZARCH Núm Fernando Higueras, was born in Madrid on November 26 Architect by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid he gets an honorable mention in the National Architecture Awards for the Children's Theatre In 1960 he gets again an honorable mention in the National Architecture Awards with the 10 artist residencies in Monte del Pardo.In 1961 he gets the first prize in the same Awards for the Center for Restoration of Madrid In 1965 he was commissioned the project along with Antonio Miró he was commissioned the military housing in Madrid Fernando was invited to a Restricted International Competition for 11 architects from around the world for the multipurpose building in Monte Carlo he was commissioned the Las Salinas Hotel in Lanzarote Fernando Higueras was National Prize of Watercolor and a great guitarist Andres Segovia gave him the Siena Fellowship in 1954 In 1962 he projected both the Lucio Muñoz House and the Estudio school in Aravaca.Part of Higuera's work is exhibited at the MoMA in NYC being the first Spanish architect exhibited in this museum Fernando Higueras died in Madrid on January 30 The first exhibition on the Arts and Craft Movement in Spain is inaugurated this Sunday Archive Exhibitions