6 Ways To Help Pulmonary Rehabilitation And C.O.P.D
If you, or a loved one, has an obstructive airway issues, there is hope for rebuilding strength and enjoying a more full and active life through lung exercises and nutrition. These programs are designed to improve lung function and improve quality of life.
Pulmonary rehabilitation—”rehab” for short— will not reverse the damage to your lungs from COPD. But it will help you do your daily tasks, such as dressing, grocery shopping, and walking, more easily.
What is Pulmonary Rehab
Pulmonary rehabilitation is the use of exercise, education, and behavioural intervention to improve how well people with longterm airway issues can function in daily life and to enhance their quality of life.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a program designed for people who have longterm lung conditions. Its primary goal is to enable people to achieve and maintain their maximum level of independence and functioning. Although most pulmonary rehabilitation programs focus on people who have obstructive lung conditions (COPD), people with other types of lung issues may benefit as well. People in all age groups can benefit, including those older than 70.
Pulmonary Rehab and Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) therapy
Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) therapy gets air into the lungs and behind the mucus using extra (collateral) airways.
In positive expiratory pressure (PEP), a person breathes through a mask or a handheld mouthpiece. PEP devices allow air to flow freely as you breathe in, but not when you breathe out. You must breathe out harder against the resistance. It takes about four times as long to breathe out against the resistance than it does to breathe in.
This helps air get behind the mucus and helps move it from lung and airway walls. It also holds your airways open, keeping them from closing.
Airway clearance technique (Oscillating PEP)
Oscillating PEP is an airway clearance technique (ACT), where the person blows all the way out many times through a device. Commonly known by their brand names (AerobikA®, AirPhysio®, Flutter®, Acapella®, and RC-Cornet®), these types of oscillating PEP devices work in two ways.
First, they use resistance to make it more difficult to breathe out, like non-oscillating PEP devices. Oscillating PEP devices also create vibrations when you breathe out. The vibrations move mucus from the surface of your airways.
After blowing through the device several times, the person huff coughs to clear the mucus from the lungs and out of the body.
Although your respiratory therapist may suggest a different way to use PEP based on your unique circumstances, typically, people perform 10 breaths before stopping to cough or huff cough mucus out of their airways. A typical session of PEP takes about 20 minutes to complete.
1. Aerobika® Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure (OPEP)
Aerobika is an airway cleaning device that uses both vibrations and back pressure to clear out mucus from the lungs. It is also an OPEP product made for the same purpose of clearing mucus from the muscles. It majorly works by opening collapsed or weak airways by thinning the loosened mucus, moving them to the larger airways in your lungs where they can easily be thrown out via cough.
- Improves ease of bringing up sputum and improves lung function
- Easy to learn and understand for independent use
- Lightweight and ergonomic design fits comfortably in the hand
- Reduces dyspnea and hyperinflation
- Decreases cough frequency and breathlessness
How the Aerobika® Device Works
Aerobika® OPEP system opens up weak or collapsed airways by creating positive pressure and oscillations simultaneously, which helps move mucus to the upper airways where it can be coughed out. How To Use The Aerobika® Device
2. Mullein (Natures #1 lung supporting plant)
Besides pep therapy like Aerobika® natural plants and herbs can also help in airway clearance.
The silvery green leaves and bright yellow flowers of mullein have been utilized for thousands of years in traditional herbalism. This gentle herb has been used extensively in European and North American folk medicine and thus has a plethora of folk tales associated with it. Mullein has been used traditionally as a remedy for the respiratory tract, including bronchitis.
Lung-Supporting Mullein Extract
Mullein is our absolute favorite when it comes to all things lung related. This gentle herb seems to focus its energy in a very effective way in the lungs, and it gets to work fast!
Mullein helps remove any 'gunk' from with the lungs via its gentle yet thorough expectorant abilities. It helps the lungs purge themselves of mucous and phlegm that have taken their fill of toxins, pollutants, and foreign matter so that it can be given healthy replacements.
How Mullein Extract Works
Benefits
Like many herbs used in herbal tea, mullein has natural mucilage which soothes, coats, and protects the respiratory system from the mouth to the lungs.
In many cases, recurring lung issues are wrapped up in an inflammation cycle. Mullein is a gentle anti-inflammatory that focuses on the lungs, so it can help reduce inflammation in the various passages and tissues in the lungs giving way to easier breathing.
Mullein has been traditionally used as a extract and tea by people with COPD, emphysema, bronchitis, inflammation, respiratory allergies, recurring congestion, smoker's cough, exercise-induced lung strain, and anxiety-related breathing issues.
Mullein has been traditionally used as a extract and tea by people with COPD, emphysema, bronchitis, inflammation, respiratory allergies, recurring congestion, smoker's cough, exercise-induced lung strain, and anxiety-related breathing issues.
3. The 21 Day Lung Clearing Programme
The Improved breathing 21 day lung clearing programme will teach techniques that doctors and researchers recommend for people with lung-related breathing issues. We will not only introduce you to the most effective breathing exercises and how to practice them, but also help in understanding how they work and what the best times are to use them.
One thing that makes breathing exercises such a valuable treatment option is the fact that they can be applied anytime and anywhere as long as the steps are learnt and understood. They're completely safe, surprisingly effective, and simple enough for anyone to learn quickly and are great techniques to COPD, anxiety, emphysema, bronchitis, inflammation and respiratory allergies treatment toolkits.
Benefits
Deeper and more relaxed breathing
Empowering breathing exercises eg Pursed lipped breathing
Improved lung function
Mucus, phlegm and tar removal
Regained confidence and peace of mind around your health
4. The Breather
Over time, regular use of the RMT technique has been shown to increase the strength of your body’s breathing muscles.
Think of it as a workout for your respiratory system, helping it become stronger and more effective. RMT is the workout, and The Breather is the exercise equipment you need to complete it.
The Breather’s inhale and exhale dials adjust independently of one another, allowing you to set inhale and exhale resistance levels separately using the dials — so you can train your lungs in a way that is specific to your lung strength.
Why is The Breather so effective in helping people with lung conditions improve their breathing?
Simply breathe in and out using your diaphragmatic (belly) breathing 5-10 minutes a day, and you’ll be able to take deeper fuller breaths.
Studies show that RMT provides so many excellent benefits, including:
- Strengthens breathing muscles
- Clearer, fuller, and deeper breathing
- Better physical performance and stamina
- Improved focus & reduced stress
5. The Vest™ Airway Clearance System
The Vest™ Airway Clearance System is designed to assist patients in the mobilization of retained secretions. If not removed, retained secretions may contribute to increased rates of respiratory infection, hospitalization and reduced lung function.
How does the Vest™ Airway Clearance System work?
Through High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation (HFCWO) technology, The Vest™ Airway Clearance System dislodges mucus from the bronchial walls, and mobilizes secretions and mucus from the smaller to larger airways where it can be cleared by coughing or suctioning.
Philips InCourage® system
The removal of retained secretions may help:Reduce airway issues
Reduce hospital admissions.
Improve lung function.
Improve quality of life for patients and caregivers.
An ideal supplementary treatment to existing therapies, especially if experiencing:
Limited success with current airway clearance techniques.
Lack of strength or ability to perform active treatment.
Poor cooperation with other airway clearance methods.
Constant fatigue is impeding existing therapies.
Reliance on others to assist with therapies.
6. AirPhysio® Mucus Clearance Oscillating Positive Expiratory (OPEP) Device
AirPhysio® is a mucus clearance and lung expansion OPEP device. The device uses an all-natural process called Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure (OPEP). This assists the body’s natural cleaning process of mucus clearance. This helps to maintain optimal hygiene in the lungs and restores lung capacity.
Key Features
Both AirPhysio and Aerobika work to fulfill the same purpose, and both work on the same principle. Here are the features of both AirPhysio and Aerobika –
- They both work rapidly. The user coughs out all the mucus in seconds.
- Safe, effective, and completely natural.
- You do not need any prescription for these.
- Cleaning and disinfection are easy.
- Both of them are certified and qualified for all the tests required.
- Clears the mucus naturally from the airway and many more.
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