Startling new Austrailian Apnea breakthrough!

This found in a link in the "Wakefulness Tests..." story in News section of CPAPTalk home page.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 094017.htm

Is this therapy likely to catch on?

I read that too.

I have heard that most people don't breathe fully when they breathe, and that different kinds of training - whether meditation or breath yoga or singing - can assist you with learning to use your full lung capacity, and thus draw in oxygen / exhale out more efficiently.

So, the digeridoo example may sound funny, except I suspect there's more than a grain of truth to it!

The didgeridoo story comes up regularly here. Most (I believe) consider it highly probable.

I know that for me, anytime I go into a meeting at work, I start to breathe slower & slower & shallower & start to get drowsy.
This passes about halfway into the meeting
BUT, if the topic is particularly interesting I can wake up very quickly.

So, the didgeridoo story sure makes sense to me - I mean, what a feat!, paying music while you sleep

DSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc

Based on that throat action I could see how it might help.

What the heck is a didgeridoo...

The didgeridoo is what brought me to this forum in the first place. I read about the study a couple years ago and I've seriously thought about trying it.

A didgeridoo is an Australian aboriginal musical instrument. Some kind of a horn? Well, you blow into it anyway.

Debjax wrote:What the heck is a didgeridoo...

Did you watch the video Gale posted?

The significant thing about playing the didgeridoo is that it is played non-stop (bit like bagpipes) so you have to master the trick of breathing in at the same time as blowing out. To do that you reate a well of air in the mouth & cheeks & blow the welled air out while breathing in through your nose.

No mean feat.

DSM

Digiridoo is a traditional Australian aboriginal instrument, it is made from a tree branch that is around a metre or so long, and has been hollowed out by termites!, they are hard to play and require what is referred to as Cyclical breathing, inhaling and blowing air out simultaneously and continuosly- I can imagine that it would help with quite a few breathing problems including OSA.

Some Asthmatics use a system called Butako (?sp) which is a form of controlled breathing, i wonder it that could be effective in OSA too?