bigtruckguy3500 said:
What was your specific injury, if you don't mind sharing. If you've lost lung capacity, I don't think you can add it back by strengthening your inspiratory muscles. If the injury involved the chest wall, and you lost lung compliance, then perhaps strenghtening the muscles in the chest wall would make breathing easier. But I'm not really familiar with IMST. Though it does kind of sounds like those altitude masks that people wear.
Vehicle accident. A bad one. Borderline flailed chest. Both lungs collapsed and had to be life flighted. Rib splinters and just sheer trauma left considerable scar tissue and from my understanding, this made my lungs more "rigid" resulting in lost capacity and healthy sacs.
I know they are damaged for life and I can never regain full use but was looking to do whatever I can as I start training again. Because my air is just pathetic right now. Embarrassing even. Looking to shortcut my recovery time. After the accident, it tooks me months to get back to the standards I was at before. And that was when I was young and fit to begin with. I have on wish to repeat that time frame if possible. If a $50 doohickey can help in this regard, I am for it. If it works though.
And it is not service related, though it did happen while in service. And I am so grateful for that, because I saw that bill. Life ruining to have a 7 figure debt before 21. God bless the tax payers and TRICARE!! Was just trying to get to the airport to go home on leave. Didn't quite make it there...