Postural Drainage
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
The term chest physiotherapy (CPT) stands for a spectrum of physical and mechanical interventions aimed at interacting therapeutically with acute and chronic respiratory disorders.[1]Among various techniques for airway clearance, postural drainage is one of the widely used methods since decades. Postural drainage is the positioning of a patient with an involved lung segment such that gravity has a maximal effect of facilitating the drainage of bronchopulmonary secretions from the tracheobronchial tree.[2]It is based on the concept of gravity-assisted mobilization of secretions and transport it for removal.
