Airway Clearance Techniques can help to break the vicious circle
The illustration above explains the vicious cycle in which patients with bronchiectasis gets enrolled. This might lead to regular exacerbation episodes and heavy symptoms, strongly impacting the well-being and quality of life. The mucociliary clearance mechanism, which is part of the mucus clearance function, gets impaired, promoting mucus stasis, mucus plugging, airflow obstruction and progressive lung damage. Ensuring regular clearance of this mucus through airway clearance techniques participates to breaking this vicious circle.
I want to know moreWhich Airway Clearance Techniques can be used in bronchiectasis ?
To alleviate your bronchial congestion associated symptoms, different techniques are available, such as :
- Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure (OPEP)
- Coughing and Huffing
- Manual Chest Physiotherapy (CPT)
- High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation (HFCWO) Therapy
- Autogenic Drainage
- Simeox therapy device
- Etc.
And you may want to speak with your physician or physiotherapist about what technique(s) would be best suitable for you.
Simeox therapy is a different approach in the Airway Clearance Techniques offering, as its principle of operation is based on mucus rheology and the thixotropic property of bronchial mucus : when stimulated with a specific mechanical signal, bronchial mucus can liquefy like water in less than 2 seconds; when that stimulation stops, the mucus goes back to its initial state. Simeox creates this specific signal during the expiration of the patient to liquefy the mucus, facilitating its mobilization and transport. The Simeox sessions are comfortable and fatigue-free.
I want to try SimeoxHow do Airway Clearance Techniques improve the well-being ?
Common symptoms of the bronchiectasis are permanent dilation of the bronchi or bronchiole, breathlessness, stagnant mucus, infections. Those symptoms can significantly impact your quality of life, as well as your social interactions. Mucus clearance helps to reduce those symptoms, and standard practice calls for efforts to clear secretions from the lungs. In the recent Simeox HomeCare Bronchiectasis trial, the autonomous use of Simeox at home has been assessed during a period of 3 months in a cohort of patients with non-CF Bronchiectasis who had difficulty to access usual chest physiotherapy. 80% of the patients used Simeox more than 3 times per week during those 3 months. The patient satisfaction rate was very high, and the quality of life scores have been remarkably improved over that 3-month follow-up period. Unlike other Airway Clearance techniques, mucus clearance sessions with Simeox are very comfortable and relaxing. Simeox has the ability to help you reach mucus in the small bronchi without any extra effort. You just need to gently breathe out through the mouthpiece, the device does the rest for you!
References and patients testimonials using Simeox
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