Respiratory Muscle Training Program in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

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• Experienced exacerbation or hospitalization within the last 3 months prior to initiating the assessment protocol, nor during the therapeutic intervention process.
• Received a cycle of steroids, intravenously or orally, 6 months prior to the start of the assessment protocol and within the study intervention period.

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• Diagnosis of another neurological disease or musculoskeletal alteration other than MS.
• Diagnosis of any cardiovascular, respiratory, or metabolic disease, or other conditions that may interfere with this study.

• Confirmed diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis based on McDonald criteria, with a disease duration of more than two years (relapsing or progressive) (McDonald et al., 2001).
• All multiple sclerosis patients are included according to the Kurtzke Disability Status Scale (EDSS) ANEX II (Kurtzke 1983, Tollár 2020).*
• Stable medical treatment for at least the six months prior to the intervention (Tollár, 2020).
• Absence of cognitive impairment, with the ability to understand instructions and achieve a score equal to or greater than 24 on the Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein, Folstein \& McHugh, 1975, Tollár 2020).