One of the problems with living with COPD apparently can be largely addressed by safely doing medium-intensity interval training, with the approval of your doctor.
Exercise is good for the heart? What a breakthrough.
There is a clinic or several, that uses leg compression “legs” that are tied to the heart beat of the client/patient. They claim that time in the clinic cleans out blockages, and spurs new growth of veins and arteries. They are only allowed to do this on people who have had transplants and are considered beyond standard of care, so insurance will cover it.
Of course they offer services for money to anyone with the want to take the treatment, and people swear by it.
If I had the money, I would pay them. It seems logical to me, but medicine in the modern age, is about making huge profits.
Anything outside of that realm, like this study, is considered interesting, but makes no money. Maybe they could patent a pill that could increase heart rate, and deep breathing, THEN they would be all over it.
ok, late 60’s here, and I have COPD, low-medium, no O2 needed; use albuterol 2-3x/day.
Until I caught covid last year, I did (a kind of) low-medium level HIIT for 20-30 minutes, 2-3x /week.
One of the problems I found is exactly what they discuss, which is that it takes so long to to lower the heart rate during each rest cycle to even anywhere approaching normal that you start to wonder if you’re actually getting the benefit of HIIT.
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