New COPD Asthma DVD Strengthens Breathing Muscles

By: Healthwise Exercise
 
 
COPD DVD Strengthens Breathing Muscles
COPD DVD Strengthens Breathing Muscles
May 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Offering real life fitness solutions for real life challenges, Healthwise Exercise, producers of Functional Fitness ( for PBS TV), has produced a line of Functional Fitness DVD’s for people over 40. Recommended by doctors as a viable plan to stay functional well into ones later years, Functional Fitness is proud to announce their COPD DVD was favorably reviewed by a medical review board.  Dr. Mache Seibel, professor of Massachusetts Medical School and  founder of HealthRock states, “Functional Fitness is a cost effective program people can do right at home and I highly recommend it.”  Vlady Rozenbaum, Ph.D., Founder of COPD Alert  reviewed the COPD/Asthma DVD and stated, " The World Health Organization designated the year 2010 as the Year of  the Lung. This video helps persons with COPD - an incurable and progressively debilitating disease, which is the 4th major cause of  death and 2nd of disability in the U.S. - to manage their lives more  effectively by better breathing techniques and simple exercises."

Suzanne Andrews, host of Functional Fitness on PBS TV, has medically documented the results of specific fitness and breathing exercises that focus on improving functional lung capacity. Using a pulseoximeter, a device that measures oxygen saturation and heart rate, Andrews has medically documented how specific breathing and pulmonary fitness techniques in a COPD patient can increase oxygen saturation up to 10 points and lower heart rate to a healthier range within 10 seconds.  A healthy person has oxygen saturation of 90 and up.  However, people with COPD fall below that line.  Andrews often begins treatment with patients whose oxygen is in the 70 - 80's.   Through specific pulmonary rehabilitation techniques, she has successfully increased peoples oxygen to that of a healthy person, enabling the person to live a functional life with more energy including the former patient in the video below who tells his COPD success story - although he has only one lung.
http://youtu.be/rKOScLIAiqw



With an extensive background in pulmonary rehabilitation, Andrews states,  “ Being functional with COPD and asthma begins with learning how your respiratory muscles help you to breathe. Your diaphragm, a dome shaped muscle between the chest and abdominal cavities, is the primary muscle of inspiration (inhaling). Contraction of the diaphragm muscle expands the lungs during inspiration. Your abdominal muscles work with the diaphragm enabling you to exhale. With correct techniques people with COPD can learn how to strengthen their breathing muscles.”  When asked what her proudest accomplishment was with the COPD DVD techniques, Andrews states, "getting people to breathe at normal o2 without having to walk around with a oxygent tank 24/7."  Interestingly enough, she tried to get companies that sell portable oxygen tanks to carry the COPD DVD but they refused, going so far as to say, "it wouldn't make sense now would it?" True  it wouldn't make $CENTS to carry a product that's ultimate goal is to get people to not need oxygen tanks as it could affect their oxygen tank sales. To insure the most beneficial outcome Andrews offers ongoing exercise advice throughout the use of the DVD program through email.    

Since not everyone with COPD has the option to attend pulmonary therapy, Andrews was prompted to produce Functional Fitness COPD DVD as an excellent adjunct to a COPD patient plan of care and is available in doctor’s offices and online at
http://www.healthwiseexercise.com/
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Host of Functional Fitness on PBS TV and occupational therapy practitioner, Suzanne Andrews specializes in increasing your ability to live better, longer and healthier regardless of your age or ability level.
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