How to Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)

How to Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT)

Exercising with oxygen therapy (also known as EWOT) has many potential benefits and can be a great way to reduce the physical stress of exercise. This is especially true if you have the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or any other respiratory illness that affects your ability to receive oxygen.

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Living with Oxygen Therapy – Inspirational Stories and Images – Part 2

Living with Oxygen Therapy - Inspirational Stories and Images - Part 2

As long as you want to keep doing the things you love, where there’s a will, there’s a way! We have put together inspiring oxygen stories and images directly from our customers. The stories include riding on a Harley Davidson with a Respironics EverGo in the countryside, enjoying a rollercoaster at Disneyland, or swimming with a portable concentrator.

Using a portable oxygen concentrator is like giving you the gift of health and freedom again. They require no refills as oxygen tanks do, and as long as you have charged-up batteries, you can go virtually anywhere and do all the things you could see before.

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New Years Resolution for a Healthier Respiratory Year

New Years Resolution for a healthier Respiratory Year

With the new year just ahead, it’s a good time to start thinking about your new year’s resolution. Many people want to step into the new year as healthier versions of themselves.

If you wear supplemental oxygen, understanding oxygen therapy and learning how to maintain oxygen equipment can help you stay healthy and active and maximize your health all year.

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5 Benefits of Walking for People with COPD

5 Benefits of Walking for People with COPD

Living with COPD might be challenging, as the damage to your lungs can cause shortness of breath and discomfort. Although it might be hard to breathe sometimes with COPD, that doesn’t mean you should quit being active.

There are many benefits to being active when you have COPD. Exercise might seem like a big challenge, but there are ways to be active with COPD while not overdoing it and getting exhausted. One form of exercise that isn’t too demanding is walking. If you have COPD, walking can allow you to be active, while also being delicate on your lungs.

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Greeley Woman Teaches Water Aerobics to Classes that Become Family

Using Water Aerobics to Regain Oxygen Freedom

Here at the Oxygen Concentrator Store by American Medical, there’s nothing that brings us more joy than hearing and seeing the freedom an oxygen concentrator can bring our customers. Kelly Ragan, a writer for The Greeley Tribune, highlights an oxygen user taking back their freedom in her article “Greeley Woman Teaches Water Aerobics to Classes That Become Like Family”.

Diana Bleignier thought she’d grow up to be an elementary school teacher. She had a gift for interacting with people and instruction, so it seemed like a natural fit. But she didn’t end up in a classroom. She wound up in a pool.

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Tell Us Your Personal Independence Story with a Oxygen Concentrator

Tell Us Your Personal Independence Story with a Oxygen Concentrator

So many people who need oxygen therapy can do the things they could before, while still getting the oxygen therapy they need. Portable oxygen concentrator technology is always advancing, giving you better battery duration and higher dosage settings than before, as well as the ability to leave home for extended periods!

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5 Low-Impact Exercises for People with COPD

5 Low-Impact Exercises for People with COPD

Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as COPD, can be a struggle for the those diagnosed. COPD can cause shortness of breath, discomfort, and coughing, and it can also make everyday activities challenging. But even though being active and exercising can increase one’s shortness of breath, there are many benefits.

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Easy Exercises with the Inogen One G4

Easy Exercises with the Inogen One G4

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions that is also one of the hardest to stick to is the focus on being healthier and more active. When you’re prescribed oxygen therapy it’s common to believe you will no longer be able to exercise which, often times, is not the case.

Staying active when you have been diagnosed with COPD is a great way to stay on top of your health. What’s more, working out with an oxygen concentrator has incredible health benefits aside from providing you the therapy you need. Most simply, oxygen helps you to get the most out of your work out.
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3 Easy Exercises with a POC

3 Easy Exercises with a Portable Oxygen Concentrator

A portable oxygen concentrator is an incredible device that has given thousands of patients renewed freedom and independence. Removing the tether to old, clunky, and outdated oxygen solutions opens the door to endless possibilities and experiences.

Another wonderful benefit to owning a light-weight and portable oxygen solution is your ability to exercise. Staying active and exercising may seem challenging when you suffer from COPD or other lung related illnesses. However, regular physical activity can actually help to strengthen your respiratory muscles, improve circulation and oxygen usage, and even assist in decreasing some COPD related symptoms.

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