PowerbreatheTM and Other Mouth Based Breathing Trainers
I've long been leery of forced inhalations for breathing
development. Stems from singing insights as well as teachers of the Ilsa
Gindler school of movement and breathing, as
the German-American physical
therapy of Caroloa Speads and Elsa Middendorf and Qi Gong
(Chi Kung) .
Basically I see them as tightening the chest, reinforcing unhealthy
mouth breathing/snoring/apnea, and reducing subtle internal sensing and the longevity that
increased FEV1
and Optimal Breathing Work has to
offer. Athletes by their competitive nature need to suppress many healthy
breathing feedback signals. Long after the competition is
over these signals stay suppressed and this is one key reason that athletes do not
have the extra long lives. that superior conditioning should suggest.
Maximum FEV1 gets lost and stays lost.
People with hidden breathing pattern issues many times will not know that
the forced inhale is actually tightening their chest and shutting down
internal proprioceptiveness. They, as in Buteyko,
can get better because of strengthened endogenous breathing and improved gas
exchange but the exogenous aspect and its relationship to internal chemistry
of easier breathing becomes compromised and invites future problems such as
lessened deep relaxation, sub optimal parasympathetic balance and or loss of
sense of self.
The capnograph I use to
monitor progress can often expose many of those situations and prove
beyond any medical doctor's doubt that the person needs
Optimal Breathing work
self help or assisted training. It will also expose
bad breathing that is invisible to the eye and hidden from many other
diagnostics.
Every physician should have one and as well as the therapy world.
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