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PowerLung - the advance Digeridoo/singing?
I saw this product in the SkyMall magazine, and thought, if the Digeridoo can lower AHI by 50%, and singing by strengthening the airway, why not this product? Worst case, it improves athletic performance. It even helped people with COPD and is clinically tested to increase lung/oxygen capacity. http://www.powerlung.com/region/us/community/testimonials/
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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Tyson, it's an interesting idea. My impression was that using the Digeridoo would actually strengthen the muscles of the oro/naso pharynx giving more tone (has this been authentically researched?) while the power lung is supposed to work the respiratory muscles- lungs and diaphragm.
Not to discourage anyone from trying the power lung (unless it's real expensive!), our problems lie in the upper airway, not with the lungs. I'm too lazy to try to learn how to play the digeridoo. I wonder if wind instrument players have any less incidence of OSA. All in all an interesting concept. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Think I'll take another look at that page...
Amazon has it in the 110 dollar range and the sport model got five stars from a bunch of people, no one with OSA though. I had no idea how many products like this there are out there. I wrote and asked if it had ever been studied for use with OSA.
Mary Z.
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Permalink Reply by tk on
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Well the interesting thing is that there is also a model that helps strengthen notes for trumpet players and singers...
Had my Septoplasty and Turbinoplasty today... not too bad or much pain.. We'll see how it turns out but it seems I maybe to breathing better (other than gauze in my nose)!
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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Tyson -- that's awesome! Congrats on the surgery, and the (fingers crossed) positive result -- can you consider writing up your experience with the surgery in a new thread? and also consider a review of the physician involved on SleepSearch.com?
Tyson Lo said:Well the interesting thing is that there is also a model that helps strengthen notes for trumpet players and singers...
Had my Septoplasty and Turbinoplasty today... not too bad or much pain.. We'll see how it turns out but it seems I maybe to breathing better (other than gauze in my nose)!
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Permalink Reply by Noah Calderon on
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I have been using the Power Lung on and off for over a year now. I can't say it has helped reduce my apneas, but what it did do was help me get used to the cpap pressure. I think it helped strengthen my diaphragm muscles and so made it easier to breath with the cpap.
I did buy a digeridoo recently, but havn't been using it much. There was a study done in Brazil which showed, if I remember correctly, a a 40% reduction in apneas with people playing the didg. So I would say the digeridoo is at least worth trying.
Again, as I posted the other day, I have seen wonderful results while wearing a 3 and 1/2 inch cervical collar along with my cpap at night. I have much deeper sleeps. Feel alot more rested and clear headed. I have been wearing a cervical collar for two months now. It has definately been a positive for my everyday functioning. I believe it helps open up my soft palate and stops my trachea from kinking by keeping my chin at a 90 degree angle to my chest.
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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There is no easy way.
What improves athletic performance is regular athletic activity plus proper diet and sufficient good sleep.
Breathing twenty times per day into a machine will only help the people selling the machine.
I started out by saying, "There is no easy way." Let me also say, if you pick an athletic activity that you enjoy doing at least three times per week, you can reach an improved level of fitness and then you may well enjoy the hardwork. I do.
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It's funny how the prospect of tongue exercises, or circle breathing practised 20 or 30 minutes a week is more daunting than the prospect of keeping a mask, machine, water reservoir, and filters clean, plus the task of donning said mask and just sleeping every night. I find it is, though. Somehow I have the discipline to wear my CPAP, where I don't think I would have the discipline to do oral PT or any of those other things. Part of it I think is we have numerical confirmation every morning when we look at our cpap numbers that it's working, or not working so well. We don't have to guess with CPAP. With oral PT or speech and swallowing therapy, they know some of the exercises help. but they don't know exactly which ones. Which means there's not a set program of exercise we can do that we know would help with our sleep apnea. CPAP on the other hand, when all goes well is a sure thing.
Mary Z.
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