Heart failure and Disease
Strengthening your inspiratory muscles with POWERbreathe IMT will help improve blood flow around your body and improve quality of life.
Breathing Effort In Heart Failure And Heart Disease
Heart failure usually results from another disease, most commonly coronary heart disease. They have similar symptoms, including shortness of breath (known as dyspnea) and fatigue which affect how physically active you are.
With heart failure, your heart is unable to properly pump blood around your body, causing fluid to build in your lungs. This makes it increasingly difficult for you to breathe. Heart failure can be the result of several conditions, including high blood pressure which puts strain on your heart, and heart disease.
Heart disease impedes blood supply in the heart because of the fatty substance build-up in the coronary arteries. Lack of regular exercise and inactivity can cause this.
At-Home Treatment For Heart Failure and Disease
Heart failure and heart disease treatment can include lifestyle changes and an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation programme to keep symptoms under control. In fact, exercising regularly helps your heart and circulatory system work more efficiently, improving your symptoms and health. It also helps improve heart function and reduces risk of further episodes of heart disease.
Just like any other muscle, your heart benefits from regular exercise and a stronger heart will pump more oxygen carrying blood throughout your body, with less effort. The same goes for your your inspiratory muscles, because blood flow becomes restricted during physical exercise when your inspiratory muscles fatigue. A study using POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) suggests IMT should be considered a complementary treatment to improve the cardiovascular system, mainly heart rate and diastolic blood pressure.
Reduce Future Risk Of Heart Disease
In patients with chronic heart failure, IMT, such as with POWERbreathe Medic IMT, has been shown to:
POWERbreathe IMT can be used alongside your regular medicine as it is drug-free, clinically-proven and has no side effects or drug interactions; just speak to your GP first. Read Precautions and Contraindications. And because the cardiovascular strain of POWERbreathe IMT is very low, it’s suitable for even the most physically compromised patients.
Backed For Heart Health
A study concluded that IMT successfully increases both inspiratory strength and endurance, alleviates dyspnea and improves functional status in chronic heart failure.
Another study concluded that in patients with chronic heart failure and inspiratory muscle weakness, IMT results in marked improvement in inspiratory muscle strength, as well as improvement in functional capacity, ventilatory response to exercise, recovery oxygen uptake kinetics, and quality of life.
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Asthma
Breathing Effort In Asthma You’ll be familiar with symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and tightness in the chest. If your asthma is not well controlled you may find it difficult to breathe; breathe with short shallow breaths; or feel that you can’t maintain your usual level of activity. Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT), […]
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COPD
Breathing Effort In COPD If you have COPD, emphysema or chronic bronchitis, you will have weak breathing muscles, making it harder for you to get air in and out of your lungs. Dyspnoea, a feeling of difficult, laboured breathing or shortness of breath, is common in COPD, and breathing muscle weakness is a contributory factor […]
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Pre and Post-op
Breathing Effort Following Surgery Breathing complications after major surgery can include pneumonia, bronchospasm and respiratory failure. In fact, weakness of the inspiratory muscles (the muscles you use to breathe in) was found in 25% of preoperative cardiac surgery patients in this trial. Inspiratory muscle weakness can also be the result of a number of causes, […]
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Blood Pressure
Research aired on NPR (National Public Radio) in the USA highlighted findings of how daily breath training with POWERbreathe IMST, using the POWERbreathe K3, can work as well as medicine to reduce high blood pressure. A subsequent retrospective analysis of the aforementioned research provides the strongest evidence to date that POWERbreathe IMST (Inspiratory Muscle Strength […]
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Stroke
Effect Of Breathing Fatigue In Stroke Recovery Not only does stroke affect you psychologically and cognitively, but physically too. One aspect of stroke is the feeling of extreme tiredness, or post-stroke fatigue, making movement feel harder and requiring more energy leading to a reduction in tolerance to exercise. Respiratory muscle strength is impaired after stroke […]
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Neuromuscular Disease
Respiratory complication is one of the most common progressive conditions associated with neuromuscular disease or disorder (NMD) and may be the result of inspiratory muscle weakness. You’ll notice signs such as extreme shortness of breath from slight effort, also known as dyspnoea; and use of your accessory respiratory muscles, which indicates effort when breathing. This […]
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Covid Recovery
Because COVID-19 is a new infection, long-term research has yet to be conducted. However, this article highlights a link between inspiratory muscle performance and COVID-19. The Risk Reduction Model in the article suggests home-based respiratory muscle training (RMT), such as POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT), could be prescribed to patients with impaired respiratory performance. RMT […]
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