COPD DVD Selected # 1 Top Pick

Feb. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews DVD for COPD/Asthma has been selected as the number one choice from About.com, a New York Times Company.

Deborah Leader, RN, COPD guide states,  “A COPD Forum favorite, Functional Fitness for COPD and Asthma is an original exercise video created by occupational therapist Suzanne Andrews that focuses on improving your breathing, relieving your stress and increasing your quality of life as you learn to live with COPD.”  The full review can be found at
http://copd.about.com/

Suzanne Andrews, host of Functional Fitness on PBS TV, and president of http://www.healthwiseexercise.com 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 and decrease shortness of breath. 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.

Functional Fitness COPD DVD has also had successful reviews by
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.   A medical review board including Mache Seibel, MD, 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.”  

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

The Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews COPD DVD can be found at http://www.healthwiseexercise.com


Healthwise Exercise, producers of Doctor recommended Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews on Public Television, offers real life fitness solutions for real life challenges and promises to put the FUN in FUNctional Fitness. To get Functional Fitness, email your local PBS station and request Functional Fitness with Suzanne Andrews.