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A major cause of breathlessness is weakness of your breathing muscles, but by using inspiratory muscle training, you can strengthen them again.
Breathing muscle weakness is common in COPD, heart failure, and other medical conditions. It can also be down to advancing age or lifestyle. Any condition that prevents physical activity can lead to inspiratory muscle weakness.
Advancing years can make you feel restricted by shortness of breath. In fact, studies show that breathing muscle strength reduces with age.
But when your inspiratory muscles are ‘overloaded’ using POWERbreathe IMT, they adapt, becoming stronger and resistant to fatigue. Stronger inspiratory muscles require less effort during a given task, reducing labored breathing (dyspnoea).
Your breathing muscles display the ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ phenomenon as other muscles. This is why people who’re less active feel more breathless: because they are less active, their breathing muscles are not exercised and so they grow weaker.
People who strengthen their breathing muscles with POWERbreathe IMT feel less breathless. They are able to carry out activities which previously left them gasping.
POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training is a drug-free breathing trainer, used where inspiratory weakness is inherent.
Research (1992 – 2009) using the POWERbreathe Medic/Wellness established benefits for health and medical conditions.
Anyone who experiences the need to forcefully empty air from their lungs, such as coughing or an expiratory wheeze on exertion, will benefit from expiratory muscle training with POWERbreathe EX1 EMT devices.
Expiratory muscle training has been shown to improve maximal expiratory pressure in the following conditions:
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Research establishing initial benefits for health and medical conditions of POWERbreathe Medic/Wellness IMT
• Improved quality of life in people with major debilitating conditions – Study 1; Study 2; Study 3; Study 4; Study 6 (used POWERbreathe IMT). • Enhanced exercise tolerance in people with major debilitating conditions (used POWERbreathe IMT). • Improvements in inspiratory muscle strength of 55% in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (used POWERbreathe IMT). • Improvements in endurance of 86% in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (used POWERbreathe IMT). • Improvements in quality of life by 21% in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (used POWERbreathe IMT). • Improvements in dyspnoea by 36% in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (used POWERbreathe IMT).
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