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POWERbreathe Plus Breathing Trainer

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The POWERbreathe Plus Breathing Trainer is a mechanical hand-held device used to strengthen inspiratory breathing muscles. The device offers an adjustable “light resistance” when inhaling.

Improving the strength of breathing muscles has shown to lower blood pressure, enhance cognitive functioning, improve athletic performance, prevents post-surgical complications, improve lung function in patients with chronic respiratory disease, and assists in COVID recovery.

POWERbreathe Plus for Treating Medical Conditions

Medical conditions that affect the lungs benefit from resistance training. Essentially it is like weight-lifting for your lungs. By improving lung function you will experience improved oxygenation, less shortness of breath, better exercise tolerance and ultimately a better quality of life.

Medical conditions that would benefit from this device include:

  • Asthma
  • COPD
  • Heart disease/failure
  • Hypertension
  • Pre & Post Op Rehabilitation
  • Post-COVID Syndrome
  • Deconditioning
  • Fatigue
  • Neuromuscular disease
  • Anxiety/Depression

 

Who else can benefit?

Everyone can benefit from the use of this device. As a fast-paced society, even in the absence of any particular disease condition, most people do not breathe appropriately and optimally. Additionally, there are many occupations and hobbies that require optimal breathing. Using such a device can benefit anyone who would like to optimize their breathing quality, including athletes, divers, musicians, performance artists, mountain climbers, and more!

30-minute “Breath for Health” Visit

A 30-minute visit with our Nurse Practitioner, Harpreet Gujral.

During your visit, you will use the state of the art POWERbreathe device KHP2 to test and measure your Inspiratory Muscle Strength (IMS). You will receive IMS training that has proven to lower blood pressure, enhance cognitive functioning, improve athletic performance, prevent post-surgical complications, improve lung function in patients with chronic respiratory disease, and assist in COVID recovery. Harpreet will also discuss additional strategies to improve immunity and lower stress.

What is covered at the visit?

You will leave from the visit with a training session, your baseline IMS scores, and a Powerbreathe device to “workout” your IMS daily (only 5 minutes, twice a day).

Is “Breath for Health” right for you?

If you would like to gain more energy, improve health and wellbeing, normalize blood pressure, improve brain capacity through improved oxygenation, and improve your lung function this can help you get closer to your goals. Breathing training helps anyone but especially those with medical conditions needing lung function improvement, fatigue, brain fog, high Blood Pressure, those who wish to improve endurance.

By improving lung function, you will experience improved oxygenation, less shortness of breath, better exercise tolerance and ultimately a better quality of life.

Cost: $275

Cost includes $210 for your visit and $65 for the device.

CALL TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT: 703-532-6302

Research

In 2019, a clinical trial performed at the University of Colorado Boulder utilized the POWERbreathe device to assess the effects of Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) on blood pressure, reducing risks of heart attacks, and enhancing cognitive and physical performance. The trial revealed that participants that utilized the POWERbreathe just a few minutes each day exhibited significant drops in blood pressure and improvements in large-artery function.

More recently, the WHO recognized the use of Powerbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) for increasing exercise and fitness in the recovery of COVID-19.

Additional research:

 

POWERbreathe Precautions and contraindications.

We are here for you, and we want to help.

Our goal is to return you to optimal health as soon as possible. To schedule an appointment please call: 703-532-4892 x2

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