Biofeedback Breathing Device at Home
The importance of breath in health has been understood for millennia. The tradition of using breath for health and healing has been transmitted from generation to generation through a variety of practices, including religion/prayer, meditation, martial arts, yoga, and etc. The technique that teaches correct breathing patterns called breathing biofeedback has now become the focus of medical research, with a dramatic rise in the number of publications related to the therapeutic use of breath for multiple pathological states and disorders over the past 20 years. Today there is a lot of biofeedback breathing device (home-use devices) that can be used at home comfort and give you the possibility to get rid of pathological states and keep control over your well-being.
The Power of Breath in Biofeedback: Harnessing Conscious Breathing for Relaxation and Well-Being
Our breathing reflects our state of mind. When we feel pleased or tense, we tend to breathe quickly, irregularly, and shallowly, showing both positive and negative stress. However, when we feel relaxed, calm, or sleepy, our breathing becomes slow, steady, and deep.
Breathing has a special role in biofeedback in that we can consciously control this parameter. In everyday life, we rarely think of our breathing and breathe almost exclusively unconsciously. Chronic stress, pain, or other psychological or physical pressures can disrupt our unconscious breathing patterns, often leading to discomfort and prolonged stress. With breathing training, you can train and improve your breathing, achieve deep relaxation, and significantly increase your general well-being. Breathing, therefore, plays an important role in almost all relaxation techniques, such as autogenic training, yoga, meditation, and progressive muscle relaxation.
There are two main measurements of respiration: the respiration amplitude (RA) and the breathing frequency, breaths per minute. Respiration is special because, in contrast to other biofeedback parameters, it can be controlled consciously. This means that breathing biofeedback training is especially suited for beginners.
What are the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing?
Diaphragmatic breathing, providing optimal oxygen saturation of the body, also has several other positive effects on the body:
- It builds stress resilience,
- Rapid fatigue disappears, and exercise tolerance increases,
- Concentration, memory, and mental activity improve,
- Biofeedback-assisted diaphragmatic breathing and systematic relaxation effectively reduce migraines and provide significantly better long-term prophylactic effects than medications. According to some research data, 67% of patients showed a significant clinical response with biofeedback, compared to 64% with propranolol.
- Cleansing the lungs increases their volume, improves lung function, and eliminates shortness of breath. As a result, this process provides therapeutic benefits for respiratory disorders like asthma and respiratory allergies.
- Blood supply to the myocardium improves, significantly reducing the strength and frequency of angina pectoris and hypertensive crises in patients with coronary disease or hypertension while also enhancing hemodynamics.
- The function of the abdominal organs improves the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, gall bladder, and bile ducts, kidneys (constipation, pain, flatulence, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.),
- Hormonal balance and metabolism normalize, providing maintaining of average weight.
Diaphragmatic breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation, and is a very effective therapeutic tool for panic attacks, anxiety, problems falling asleep, logoneurosis, asthma, etc.
How do you develop diaphragmatic breathing?
It is impossible to observe the correct breathing technique constantly. However, if a person develops and consolidates the habit of using the proper breathing technique, it will remain for life.
eSense Biofeedback Breathing Device
eSense Respiration is a biofeedback breathing device that uses a breathing belt sensor in connection with a smartphone or tablet (Android or Apple iOS) and an app to measure your breathing accurately. The sensor focuses on feedback from your breathing. eSense Respiration provides breathing training with biofeedback and improves your breathing pattern, breathing duration, breathing depth, and, thus, your health!
The eSense Respiration works only with an eSense Skin Response. Only the eSense Skin Response can be used independently.
If heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback training is included, the eSense HRV App offers various ways to visualize and define respiration in a certain rhythm. The coupling of heartbeat and respiration is most significant when breathing at about 4.5 to 6.5 breaths per minute. This helps the HRV biofeedback training and makes it much easier than without respiration support.
The Breather - Biofeedback Breathing Device
The Breather – Biofeedback Breathing Device is a Hand-Held Inspiratory Expiratory Muscle Trainer for Drug-Free Respiratory Therapy.
- THE ONLY RMT DEVICE FEATURING INDEPENDENT INSPIRATORY/EXPIRATORY DIAL CONTROL.
The Breather functions as both an inspiratory and an expiratory muscle trainer, with adjustable dials for independent resistance settings for inhalation and exhalation. It is the ultimate device for respiratory care. Think of it as a lung trainer, supporting respiratory health and efficiency by promoting diaphragmatic (belly) breathing. - DESIGNED TO HELP IMPROVE OXYGEN FLOW.
This inspiratory exerciser benefits those undergoing respiratory treatment. The Breather is a respiratory trainer or exerciser that improves lung strength and capacity by increasing oxygen uptake to vital organs. - DRUG-FREE THERAPY FOR COPD, CHF, AND DYSPHAGIA
Individuals with COPD, CHF, dysphagia, and neuromuscular diseases use the Breather. Continued use has improved dyspnea, peak cough flow, laryngeal function, QOL, vent weaning, and speech and swallowing performance. - ONLINE VIDEOS AND A DEDICATED MOBILE APP.
The Breather’s creator, PN Medical offers self-paced, online video protocol training for therapists, patients, and consumers. Additionally, the Breather Coach mobile app lets you track and monitor your progress from your phone. - There are five expiratory and six inspiratory adjustable independent pressure settings. You can adjust the resistance on each inhalation and exhalation. The higher the setting, the higher the resistance.
CLINICAL BENEFITS
The Breather exercise optimizes the blood flow to your working muscles, increasing your performance capacity and extending your exercise limits. It improves the strength of your diaphragm and other respiratory muscles while maximizing lung function. The exercise strengthens your cardiac system and circulation, reducing blood pressure and improving sleep.
