Coping With COPD
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
The advances of modern technology that increase our standard of living also come with a downside. Manufacturing processes can create airborne dust and chemicals that, overtime, become irritants resulting in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD. Smokers and those subjected to second-hand smoke are also vulnerable to developing COPD. And as we age, the symptoms of COPD slowing begin to emerge, indicating, often too late, the presence of irreversible lung damage.
Signs indicating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) include shortness of breath, tight chest, and coughing and wheezing. COPD consists of a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe. Coping with COPD requires airway clearance techniques and treatments that can control the symptoms and reduce the risk of complications.
One way to treat COPD is through deep, controlled coughs. This method of clearing the airways to relieve COPD patients consists of filling the lungs, contracting the upper abdominal muscles, and expelling all the air in one forceful cough.
Another COPD treatment is Chest Physiotherapy or Chest Physical Therapy (CPT). CPT for treating COPD can be performed manually or with an airway clearance device and is often combined with postural drainage. Postural drainage uses gravity to move the congestion from the lungs up to the throat.
The amount of force applied to the chest for treating COPD can vary widely from gentle tapping to hammering. Research has shown that more congestion is loosened with greater force. Tests confirm that Med Systems' Electro Flo® 5000 and the Fluid Flo® 2500 provide significantly more pulse force than other products and confirm the claims of users that they are also the most effective products available.
The strongest, the Electro Flo® 5000 with Force Multiplying Technology, has 25 targeted settings that allow power and frequency to be precisely directed to the lobes of the lungs. This is important to providing COPD patients control over their airway clearance.
When Chest Percussion is needed for Chest Physical Therapy in treating COPD, the Fluid Flo® 2500 and the Electro Flo® 5000 have proven to be superior products.