COPD DVD Strengthens Breathing Muscles

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - Aug. 8, 2015 - PRLog -- When living with COPD, exercising may not be the foremost thought on one's mind. However studies prove that specific exercises strengthen breathing muscles. This is not new knowledge to rehab therapist, Suzanne Andrews, creator of Functional Fitness on Public Television.  Having worked with pulmonary patients for ten years, she instructs the correct way to increase lung power in doctor recommended Functional Fitness COPD/Asthma DVD.

Travelling across the country teaching specific lung power exercises, Andrews has medically documented how specific breathing and pulmonary techniques in a COPD patient can increase oxygen saturation up to 10 points and lower heart rate to a healthier range.  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 well below the healthy range.   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 and decreased shortness of breath.

Suzanne Andrews Functional Fitness COPD DVD Reviews:
1.    Vlady Rozenbaum, PhD, COPD-ALERT.com. “This DVD 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."

2.   Mache Seibel, MD, founder of My Menopause Magazine, “Functional Fitness is a cost effective program people can do right at home and I highly recommend it.”

3.   Dr. Larry Grouse, president of US Health Network, Inc stated, “International COPD coalition finds this a “sound and useful DVD that we recommend.”

4. About.com, "Selected as number one out of top 10 COPD DVDs."

Since not everyone with COPD has the option to attend pulmonary therapy, Andrews was prompted to produce Functional Fitness COPD as an excellent adjunct to a COPD patient plan of care. To purchase the DVD and hear the story of how a patient with only one lung threw away his oxygen tank go to:

http://shop.healthwiseexercise.com/COPD-and-Asthma-705105562407.htm

Host of Functional Fitness on PBS TV and occupational therapy practitioner, Suzanne Andrews specializes in Fitness DVDs for specific health needs.