What Happens When You Breathe
In our blog, How Breathing Works, we take a look at what makes up your respiratory system. In this blog, we look at what physically happens when you breathe. Therefore, we’ll be looking at inhalation (breathing in) and exhalation (breathing out). Furthermore, we’ll be looking at how POWERbreathe IMT helps you to strengthen the muscles you […]
Why Deep Breathing Exercises Are Good For You
Deep breathing exercises encourage the air you breathe in to fully fill your lungs. Also known as diaphragmatic breathing and abdominal breathing, it helps your body to breathe in as much energy-giving oxygen as possible, and exchange it for the waste product carbon dioxide. As a result of this deep breathing and full gas exchange, […]
Respiratory Muscle Training Valuable in COVID-19 Patient Recovery
Although we are always learning more about this disease daily, interesting new research by Severin et al finds that, “in patients identified as having respiratory muscle impairments, respiratory muscle training may prove valuable in mitigating the health impact of future pandemics.” Severin et al Respiratory Muscle Training The purpose of respiratory muscle training (RMT) is […]
Drug-Free IMT Reduces Use Of Asthma Inhalers
A report claims that switching to ‘green’ inhalers could reduce carbon emissions and cut costs. The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, finds that metered-does inhalers contribute approximately 3.9% of the carbon footprint of the NHS. This is due to the hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) propellants found in these asthma inhalers. HFAs, like CFCs […]
Breathing for focus using the 4-4-8 breathing technique
The 4-4-8 breathing technique is a basic breathing technique which is designed to help you relax and focus. This technique is great if you feel stressed or tense. Using this technique will help you get rid of the tension so you can focus on what you need to do. No matter what your goal is, […]
Omega-3 The truth behind fish oils
If you engage in intense and sustained exercise – things like wrestling, or boot camp, or martial arts – you know that sometimes it’s hard to “catch your breath”. Your lungs are working as hard as they can, but you wonder if they’re really going to give you the oxygen you need or collapse and […]
Running With COPD
When people are out running they can sometimes struggle when trying to draw in oxygen to cope with the demands the body is placing on them. This would be normally be associated with someone who is physically out of shape. However, if the symptoms persist then it could be more medically related and it is […]
Causes Of Inspiratory Muscle Weakness
Weak inspiratory muscles can be the result of a number of causes, including disease, but the amount of ‘exercise’ they receive has a huge influence upon their condition. We use the phrase ‘use it or lose it’ to describe the best way to off-set problems that come with ageing, such as completing crosswords to keep […]
Asthma In Older Women
Physician’s Weekly discloses how older women are more likely to report having asthma than older men, and also have a 30% higher asthma-related mortality rate. To discover why, Dr. Alan P. Baptist (MD,MPH) conducted a literature review in which he finds data suggesting that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle often play a large role in […]
Smokers lungs work better after POWERbreathe IMT
This new study investigates the effects of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) on smokers and non-smokers. Researchers from Ondokuz Mayıs University and Gaziantep University in Turkey look into how IMT may affect pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength in both these groups. Pulmonary function & respiratory muscle strength Pulmonary function indicates how well a person’s lungs are […]
Natural Remedy for Hay Fever Cough
Hay fever may make symptoms of asthma, such as coughing and wheezing, feel worse. In fact, people with respiratory symptoms may experience continuous coughing as a result of their hay fever. This is likely to be due to the type of allergens affecting them. However, if a cough becomes unusually persistent, it is always best […]
Alleviate Screen Apnoea By Breathing Deeply
‘Screen apnoea’ is a new, 21st-century condition. The term is a play on the name for the serious condition, ‘sleep apnoea’. Sufferers with sleep apnoea may stop breathing for short periods of time while they sleep. Surprisingly, a similar thing happens to users of electronic devices. Findings show that people have a tendency to hold […]
Aging Reduces Breathing Muscle Strength
We came across this study (Oct 2014) from the Clinical Interventions in Aging which we felt worth sharing because it’s an area of women’s health (and applicable to men’s health) that we haven’t discussed before. Single – and multiple – set resistance training improves skeletal and respiratory muscle strength in elderly women Aging & biological […]
New Asthma Treatment for Severe Asthma
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), are consulting again on the safety and efficacy of a new asthma treatment. The new treatment, bronchial thermoplasty, is likely to be offered to adults with severe asthma. The procedure involves applying thermal energy (heat) to the inside walls of the airways. New asthma treatment Bronchial thermoplasty […]
Why you should dig deep and breathe from your diaphragm
We thought we’d write a very quick blog on why it’s important to breathe deeply from your diaphragm, after all that’s why POWERbreathe was developed – to answer a need for training the breathing muscles (primarily the diaphragm) so that we all start to breathe again as nature intended, from the diaphragm and not from […]
How COPD Affects Breathing
One of the most common questions asked by people with COPD is how it affects breathing. To understand this, it’s first worth understanding how your lungs work. How your lungs work As you breathe in, you bring air down through your windpipe and into your airways. Your airways then branch out in your lungs into thinner tubes, […]
