Would you recommend The Breather to be used with IOPI? Or use one before the other?
Yes, it is best used with IOPI. For IOPI measures tongue and lip pressures, which may improve in tandem with respiratory muscles strengthening when RMT is carried out. However, Respiratory Muscle Training can only establish direct impact on respiratory muscles, not on the tongue and or lip muscles, as there are too many anatomic and functional variables to correlate the two muscle groups.
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