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breathing exercise.

Dave-Burris
Dave-Burris
I was reading an article on breathing techniques that lead me to this website, Im gonna give it a try and will let you all know how it goes,

http://www.breathebetterforlife.com/
deleted_user
deleted_user
Sounds good. Let us know.....There's another one that's also good....can be found at www.gentlefitness.com. Quite a few people in the forum before found it useful...a lot of the exercises can be done sitting down.
deegran
deegran
Looks interesting. Let us know.
grannie
grannie
I just got out of the hospital and they gave me a thing to help strengthen the lungs..I use it 10 times a day..

http://www.allegromedical.com/airlife-bff8081811d63623f011d732a779b3491.html?campaign=google&net=s&src=&adid=15893763318&bkw=airlife&gclid=CIiDhfa_o7ICFQed7QodNQoAqQ
bjrapp2020
bjrapp2020
Thanks for the links. Jamsnjazzy, I can not seem to bring your link up. what is wrong? Also to grannie, what is the name of the device they sent you home with...all I found was nebulizers.
Thanks again
BJ
grannie
grannie
It is called Airlife..you inhale and try to keep an indicator between two marks on the side, it has numbers on the piece from 500 to 4000..shows you how much air you inhale, it is suppose to expand your lungs and strengthen them.
Dave-Burris
Dave-Burris
how about blowing up a balloon?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Don't know why the link won't work - here's another:

http://www.gentlefitness.com/index.html

If that won't work, just google gentle fitness and you can bring it up that way.

Re: balloons...yep. Also, Grannie's Airlife and harmonica playing:

http://youtu.be/deZXu3fbfqI

:o)
deleted_user
deleted_user
whoops!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZXu3fbfqI