Chest physiotherapy (CPT) plays a vital role in improving lung function and overall health in children with respiratory conditions.

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Chest Physiotherapy techniques for young children | Dr. Trupti Ajagaonkar

hello I'm Dr trupti asaar physiotherapy InCharge from srcc Children's Hospital managed by Nar Health today I'm going to talk about chest physiotherapy technique for the younger children starting from infants up to the age of 2 years as we all know chess physiotherapy plays very crucial important role in their lives to drain out the secretions and keep their lungs at healthy and clear Airways maintain the clear Airways so the there are certain precautions has to be followed like hand hygiene we have to wear a mask to protect ourself from the segregations and from their infections we have to make sure the child is starving at least for 2 hours to avoid any kind of vomiting and regurgitation happening since these are younger children so as we all know there are two lungs right and left and there are three portions first is upper then middle and then lower so I'm going to show you every each and every Zone wise how to drain each and every portion of the lung with the help of gravity the physiotherapy has to be done at least three times in a day when the chest is clear and when there are secretions at least four to six times in a day so I'll begin with first the right upper portion of the lung you can do it like this make the child sit in your lap and then you can either take two fingers if the the child is really young infant or slightly bigger you can take three fingers like this first and third finger together and then the middle finger just above it and then you can gently tap over it like this for the right upper Lop or else you can use a CPAP mask because this is soft the acceptance is much better and we get good compliance from the children and you can tap it like this and the same way if we have to do for the right upper posterior Lop I'll make the child facing me sitting in my lap like this and then I will tap it here above portion same way it can be done for the left side now I'll show you for the middle portion of the lungs we will not give them head low positions I'm going to put the child on the side and then in the middle portion I'm going to just tap this is for the right middle portion lateral and then for the left and I will do this same thing for the anterior portion of the middle L on the both the sides and same will be repeated put the child on tummy and then tap it now for the lower portion of the lungs I'm just going to raise one knee above like this slight inclination and then I'm going to focus on the lower portion of the lungs anteriorly on both the sides in front and then for the right lateral and for the left lateral and then I'll put the child on tummy and do it from behind as well each position can be last for almost 3 minutes and you can drain the lungs

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