A new app could help ten million Britons with long Covid, asthma and COPD 🔴 BawdenTom reports
, which developers hope could also help with rehabilitation after chest or abdominal surgery, will be piloted in two separate studies in May among outpatients at the Royal Free Hospital in North London and from GP practices in the area.
Around one in five UK adults experience respiratory symptoms, such as breathlessness, due to diseases like long Covid – which affects up to 2 million people in the UK, asthma and COPD – and many of these could benefit from the new app, according to its main developer, Luke Hale. “We’ve had some interest from US companies and startups who would like to incorporate the breath recognition technology in their own platforms – this would potentially enable it to scale much quicker. It may be that this breath-recognition smartphone technology ‘powers’ a number of other applications,” he said.
According to Dr Hale, the exercises have the therapeutic benefits associated with breathing exercise such as reducing breathing complications, strengthening breathing muscles, reducing chest infections and increasing capacity for exercise. If this is backed up by the forthcoming trials, Dr Hale hopes the app can enable many more people to have ‘breathing exercise’ therapy and that compliance with those breathing exercises can improve significantly. The app could also reduce the strain on the NHS.
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