Empowered Patient Podcast Maintaining a Strong Respiratory System and Why Healthy Breathing Matters with Mark Carbone PN Medical
Mark Carbone, CEO of PN Medical, highlights the growing problem since COVID-19 of respiratory health and breathing issues. The Breather is a respiratory muscle training device that improves breathlessness, endurance, stamina, blood pressure, and sleep. Used daily, this device has shown benefits for patients, athletes, and the military in training respiratory muscles and counteracting bad posture and limitations of the environment on the lungs and diaphragm. PN Medical is developing a connected version of The Breather that uses AI and sensors to monitor respiratory health and provide personalized feedback.
Mark explains, "The Breather is our flagship. That's the one we invented 43 years ago. And since then, we've moved from patient to athletics, Special Forces, and even professional singers and actors. So, at its core, it's a gym for your lungs and heart. That's the easiest way to explain it, but the whole system is a three-part system. So, it's a respiratory muscle training device at its core, and the second part is breathing protocols. We've learned these things over all these years with so many people. And then there's a mobile coaching app. If you want to go analog, you don't need the app. If you're not into that, we find so many people like to have something simple and do not want to go super high-tech. But if you want to, you can."
"We've got an over-the-counter version. It was born in the clinical realm. So respiratory therapists started way back then, speech therapists, now PTs, OTs, and skilled nursing. So, it goes across all those disciplines. It does not have to be prescribed. It can be in the acute or subacute. It's growing exponentially in home health because everything's going to the home now. Usually, you will get it when you're checking out of the hospital, and then you follow the therapy once you're out. And it's something if you want to get the best out of it, you use it for the rest of your life."
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