“There are
some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity
can. The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best
swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant
antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the
thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared for him; he does the
thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on
the spot.” - Mark
Twain (American Author – 1835 - 1910)
Ask yourself how the most successful elite athletes and wealthiest people became that way. Many did not go to university. They did things their way and did not follow what others had done. On this blog post, I will explain why Elite Athletes need Bilevel or BiPAP Auto Adjusting pressure machines rather than use a CPAP machine.
I have not followed what the sleep medical specialists have advised in using a CPAP machine. Why? There is ample evidence showing that there are up to an estimated 80% non-successful, non-compliant and failing patients who are using a CPAP machine. Further details are on the blog page Why is CPAP Compliance Rate Low?
I have purchased out of pocket Bilevel Auto Adjusting machines to treat obstructive sleep apnea. Further, I have taught myself as much as possible on how to use this particular machine and optimize the settings for me. By doing so, I am having a great night’s sleep every night so as to wake up feeling refreshed and energized.
In my younger years, I played a lot of competition sport, so I am totally aware of how important sleep is to maximize performance. You need to be able to perform on any given day at your best. Just 1% to 2% from your best may be the difference between winning and losing the game.
Great sleep is critical to an elite athlete to perform at their maximum performance. When an elite athlete has lack of quality and quantity of sleep, they will feel tired and lacking energy and may make mistakes during a game. This may be due to a reduction in focus and judgement from less reaction time to what’s coming at you and what the opposition player or team is doing.
Lack of sleep may also lead to lack of motivation and memory in players and increase the risk of illness and injury. Potentially, illness and injury may prematurely end a person’s sporting career.
Did you know that elite athletes such as Roger Federer, Usain Bolt and Maria Sharapova get up to 10 to 12 hours of sleep a night? Serious consideration needs to be given by everyone to the quality and quantity of sleep that they are having.
It is common in some elite athletes to have obstructive sleep apnea due to the particular sport they play such as Rugby Union and American Football players. These athletes may have large body masses and “thick” necks or extra fat or muscle tissue on the neck.
You can read more at these articles:
Ask yourself how the most successful elite athletes and wealthiest people became that way. Many did not go to university. They did things their way and did not follow what others had done. On this blog post, I will explain why Elite Athletes need Bilevel or BiPAP Auto Adjusting pressure machines rather than use a CPAP machine.
I have not followed what the sleep medical specialists have advised in using a CPAP machine. Why? There is ample evidence showing that there are up to an estimated 80% non-successful, non-compliant and failing patients who are using a CPAP machine. Further details are on the blog page Why is CPAP Compliance Rate Low?
I have purchased out of pocket Bilevel Auto Adjusting machines to treat obstructive sleep apnea. Further, I have taught myself as much as possible on how to use this particular machine and optimize the settings for me. By doing so, I am having a great night’s sleep every night so as to wake up feeling refreshed and energized.
In my younger years, I played a lot of competition sport, so I am totally aware of how important sleep is to maximize performance. You need to be able to perform on any given day at your best. Just 1% to 2% from your best may be the difference between winning and losing the game.
Great sleep is critical to an elite athlete to perform at their maximum performance. When an elite athlete has lack of quality and quantity of sleep, they will feel tired and lacking energy and may make mistakes during a game. This may be due to a reduction in focus and judgement from less reaction time to what’s coming at you and what the opposition player or team is doing.
Lack of sleep may also lead to lack of motivation and memory in players and increase the risk of illness and injury. Potentially, illness and injury may prematurely end a person’s sporting career.
Did you know that elite athletes such as Roger Federer, Usain Bolt and Maria Sharapova get up to 10 to 12 hours of sleep a night? Serious consideration needs to be given by everyone to the quality and quantity of sleep that they are having.
It is common in some elite athletes to have obstructive sleep apnea due to the particular sport they play such as Rugby Union and American Football players. These athletes may have large body masses and “thick” necks or extra fat or muscle tissue on the neck.
You can read more at these articles:
7 Athletes
with Sleep Apnea – The Common Misconception about OSA
Seven sports
stars who get plenty of zzz’s. https://www.sleep.org/articles/athletes-and-sleep
From personal experience, by using a Bilevel Auto
Adjusting machine for maximum performance, you can perform at your very best on
game day. You want to be feeling great every day, not just 4 or 5 or fewer days
each week. Some days I feel I could climb Mt Everest with an extra 3,000 to
4,000 feet on top and “conquer the world”!
Optimize the settings on the sleep apnea machine for you
and change the settings on the machine depending on the situation that you find
yourself facing each day. Such situations may be a hard physical game, heavy
training, competition schedules, eating and drinking late and a day with little
activity. A fixed pressure CPAP machine is only a best estimate of what
pressure you require each night.
For more details, refer to blog post Use different CPAP and Bilevel pressure settings and blog pages Different Bilevel Settings Example and Guide to Success using CPAP and Bilevel.
A major weakness of the CPAP machine is that the machine
is limited to Pressure Support of 3 cmH2O. The pressure support on a bilevel
machine is up to 10 cmH2O making it much easier to breathe against the pressure
on exhale. In addition, the CPAP machine does not have settings for Trigger and
Cycle and TI Max and TI Min like the machine that I use, which is the ResMed S9
VPAP Auto. This is an auto adjusting bilevel machine which is now known as the
ResMed AirCurve 10 VAuto bilevel machine. These additional settings allow you
to optimize the settings on the machine for you so that you can have a great
night’s sleep. More details at CPAP Vs Bilevel Settings Example.
Note that you will also see the bilevel machines known as
BiPAP machines. BiPAP stands for Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure. BiPAP is a
Registered Trademark owned by Philips Respironics. This company’s machine is
known as Philips Respironics DreamStation Auto BiPAP.
Recent medical research supports the use of a bilevel
machine when CPAP is not effective or the patient cannot tolerate the CPAP
pressure. In a 2019 study, the median average daily usage increased by greater
than 23% when comparing a bilevel machine to a CPAP machine. Refer to the
following article:
Benjafield AV, Pepin J-LD, Valentine K, et al.
Compliance after switching from CPAP to bilevel for patients with non-compliant
OSA: big data analysis. BMJ Open Resp Res 2019;6:e000380.
doi:10.1136/ bmjresp-2018-000380
Throughout this Blog, I have detailed how I stopped many CPAP Side Effects and Issues using Bilevel by doing sleep apnea therapy
differently to others.
In later blog posts, I will show how to overcome the
relatively rare issue of air through the eye tear duct using a CPAP machine. The
sleep medical specialists have made this issue complex. Fortunately, for many
people, the answer is simple!
In the next Blog Post, Athletes need Maximum Performance: Use Bilevel, I will show
how Elite Athletes may set and use the Bilevel Auto Adjusting Machine.
Since originally writing this blog post, in early 2021 I began using a very high starting IPAP of 18.2 cmH2O and EPAP of 12.8 cmH2O (inhale and exhale pressure) to stop and reverse the symptoms of Dementia. I used the advanced ResMed Bilevel with iVAPS machine which will also be of great benefit to all athletes. This machine will enable an athlete to have great sleep every night and be able to perform at their very best when needed. More details are on the blog post:
Should you be having side effects and issues with your sleep apnea
therapy; CHANGE what
you are doing so that you can wake up feeling refreshed and energized each
day.
“Have
courage. Be adventurous and Go for it! Overcome your fear.”
- Mrhelpful
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