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What is Breath Stacking? Breath stacking refers to methods to increase the amount of air you get into your lungs; increasing what is technically called the inspiratory capacity. It is one small breath upon another to increase the inspired volume (increase the inflation of the lungs). Read more...Click to read more below


Reasons Taken

16 patients in the community are taking or have taken Breath Stacking.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Slow my ALS progress 6 37%
Other 4 25%
disease-related symptoms 3 18%
General health 2 12%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Breath Stacking.

  0 day 0 other none 0.16665 min month 2 day 3 day 10 day 15 other day 40 min day
  3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Breath Stacking or how long patients were taking Breath Stacking before stopping.

Currently taking Breath Stacking

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
2
0
3
0
2
1

Stopped taking Breath Stacking

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
1
0
0
Why Patients Stopped Taking Breath Stacking (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Course of treatment ended 1 100% Course of treatment ended: 100%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 3 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Moderate 100% 1

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 3

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 3 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 3)

  • amma
    Mouth/throat: none
    Arms: moderate
    Chest: moderate
    Legs: mild
    See profile
  • by amma
    Aug 25, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • disease-related symptoms

  • Mypromis
    Mouth/throat: none
    Arms: moderate
    Chest: mild
    Legs: severe
    See profile
  • Mypromis
  • by Mypromis
    Oct 07, 2008
  • EfficacyCan't tell
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Slow my ALS progress

See all evaluation results for Breath Stacking



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