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STOP Using Your CPAP Until You See This! 🛑

25 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker— a therapist who works with sleep‑apnea clients— explains that while conventional treatments such as CPAP, oral appliance therapy, and dental interventions are valuable, they fail to address key physiological factors that drive apnea events. These factors include the critical closing pressure (Pcrit), the arousal threshold, and loop gain. The speaker argues that therapists, rather than physicians, are positioned to modify these metrics through breathwork techniques, highlighting the Buteyko method (which the speaker is certified in) as a primary tool among a broader repertoire of interventions used in their practice.

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So I work a lot with clients who have sleep apnea, and I'm working in conjunction with dentists or oral appliance therapy or CPAP. Those are great therapies and they're very much needed, but they don't address certain critical elements of breathing like the Pcrit, the closing threshold, the arousal threshold, and loop gain. So those are basically— they're all different things, and I won't bore you with going into exactly what everything is, but we as the therapists are the ones who can treat that. It's not the doctor, it's not the breathwork is what's going to improve those numbers. So, and Buteyko is a very well-known method to do that. So got my certification and it is one of the methods that I use. It's not the only method. I use a varied combination of different methods, but I think it's very helpful for our practice.