Re: Re: PLB - Pursed Lip Breathing

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thanks bruce

Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania

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Subject: Re: PLB - Pursed Lip BreathingTo: Breathe-Support Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 8:37 PM

PinkThe initials are rpm....rotations per minute. Sort of makes you thinkthat you have this huge record only rotating 33 times per minute versusdigital today rotating thousands of times.>>> Subject: Re: PLB - Pursed Lip Breathing> To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 8:18 PM>>>>>>>>>> Stefani,> I'll see your cassette tape and raise you by one 8 track tape....LOLNow who's dating herself? My first "stereo" when I was 12 or so had an8 track player in addition to a turntable. Good lord I'm old!>> In all seriousness it sounds like that breathing tape was

terrific,lots of good techniques!>> Beth> Moderator> Fibrotic NSIP 06/06 Dermatomyositis 11/08>>>>>>>>> From: Stefani sfshaner (AT) gmail (DOT) com>> To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Wed, October 7, 2009 8:04:09 PM> Subject: PLB - Pursed Lip Breathing>>>> I had been on my own for 3 years before I got the PF diagnosis and haddeveloped the breathing techniques on my own. I had gone through acleansing breath tape sessions with a fellow car-pooler. His father inlaw evidently had some issues with breathing and gave all of his familymembers audio cassettes (kinda dates me doesn't it) on breathingexercises. It had instructions for both the diaphragmatic and pursed lipbreathing techniques. It was designed for commuters as it would instructyou to grab the steering

wheel, exhale completely, inhale in puffs, holdmomentarily and then blow out with an extra puff out at the end. Thosetapes have been so helpful to me. The exercises would call for you toraise one arm over your head (you would have to bend your elbow as mostvehicles do not permit an arm straight up in the air). Put this image inyour head... you are commuting to/from work, look over at the cartraveling down the freeway and two idiots are in> the front seat (one male, one female)... with their right arms up andover their heads... and they have their cheeks puffed out... LOL And youare so right, it helps one regain control of a scary, breathlesssituation for most of us. My instructor at the University said he hadseveral pulmonary patients tell him it was beneficial, but when he wastaught it he was told it was only for obstructive patients. The more youlearn, the more you learn what you don't

know...>> Stefani 61 year old Utahn> ILD 2/2006, NSIP (cellular) 6/2009, UIP 9/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006,Sleep Apnea 4/2009>

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OK I'll just have to tell you I had 78's... 45's and 33's.. Love & Prayers, Peggy Florida, IPF/UIP 2004"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." thanks bruce Pink Joyce R (IPF 3/06) IFA 5/09 Pennsylvania Donate Life Listed 1/09 Inactive 4/09 www.transplantfund.org--- On Wed, 10/7/09, Bruce <brucemoreland (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: From: Bruce <brucemoreland (AT) gmail (DOT) com>Subject: Re: PLB - Pursed Lip BreathingTo: Breathe-Support Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 8:37 PM PinkThe initials are rpm....rotations per minute. Sort of makes you thinkthat you have this huge record only rotating 33 times per minute versusdigital today rotating thousands of times.>>> Subject: Re: PLB - Pursed Lip Breathing> To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 8:18 PM>>>>>>>>>> Stefani,> I'll see your cassette tape and raise you by one 8 track tape....LOLNow who's dating herself? My first "stereo" when I was 12 or so had an8 track player in addition to a turntable. Good lord I'm old!>> In all seriousness it sounds like that breathing tape was terrific,lots of good techniques!>> Beth> Moderator> Fibrotic NSIP 06/06 Dermatomyositis 11/08>>>>>>>>> From: Stefani sfshaner (AT) gmail (DOT) com>> To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com> Sent: Wed, October 7, 2009 8:04:09 PM> Subject: PLB - Pursed Lip Breathing>>>> I had been on my own for 3 years before I got the PF diagnosis and haddeveloped the breathing techniques on my own. I had gone through acleansing breath tape sessions with a fellow car-pooler. His father inlaw evidently had some issues with breathing and gave all of his familymembers audio cassettes (kinda dates me doesn't it) on breathingexercises. It had instructions for both the diaphragmatic and pursed lipbreathing techniques. It was designed for commuters as it would instructyou to grab the steering wheel, exhale completely, inhale in puffs, holdmomentarily and then blow out with an extra puff out at the end. Thosetapes have been so helpful to me. The exercises would call for you toraise one arm over your head (you would have to bend your elbow as mostvehicles do not permit an arm straight up in the air). Put this image inyour head... you are commuting to/from work, look over at the cartraveling down the freeway and two idiots are in> the front seat (one male, one female)... with their right arms up andover their heads... and they have their cheeks puffed out... LOL And youare so right, it helps one regain control of a scary, breathlesssituation for most of us. My instructor at the University said he hadseveral pulmonary patients tell him it was beneficial, but when he wastaught it he was told it was only for obstructive patients. The more youlearn, the more you learn what you don't know...>> Stefani 61 year old Utahn> ILD 2/2006, NSIP (cellular) 6/2009, UIP 9/2009, Diabetes II 2/2006,Sleep Apnea 4/2009>