- Breathing exercises The aim was to achieve a regular pattern of abdominal breathing and strengthen the abdominal muscle, improving coordination between breathing, the abdominal and anal muscles and colonic propulsion. Standard diaphragmatic breathing will achieve with a modified exercise, under the supervision of the physiotherapist, with the patient in a seated position, with one hand placed on the abdomen and the other on the thorax, and will be instructed to breath in slowly, deeply and progressively for 6 to 8 seconds, retain the air for 10 seconds and exhale slowly for 6 to 8 seconds. Two series will be completed, with ten repetitions, and the exercise was considered successfully performed when greater mobility of the hand placed on the abdomen achieves, compared to minimal or no mobility of the hand on the thorax, from which point the series was initiated.