POWERbreathe - Other Medical Conditions
Specific training of the inspiratory muscles has been demonstrated to increase their strength, resistance to fatigue and reduce exertional dyspnoea.
Because Inspiratory Muscle Training influences dyspnoea directly at a cortical level, it is also helpful for managing other conditions where dyspnoea is present, in addition to COPD and asthma. These include:
Inspiratory muscle training has also been shown to be helpful in other medical conditions, including:
Because Inspiratory Muscle Training influences dyspnoea directly at a cortical level, it is also helpful for managing other conditions where dyspnoea is present, in addition to COPD and asthma. These include:
- Elderly people (with non-specific dyspnoea Copestake & McConnell, 1995)
- Neuromuscular disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Prior-polio
- Spinal cord injury
- Sleep apnoea and snoring
- Exercise-induced paradoxical vocal fold motion
Inspiratory muscle training has also been shown to be helpful in other medical conditions, including:
- Muscular dystrophy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Voice and speech disorders
- Postoperative pulmonary complications
- Restrictive thoracic disease
- Severe chronic pulmonary hypertension
- Inspiratory stridor
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Tetraplegia
- Myasthenia gravis
- Bronchiectasis
- Chronic hemodialysis
