Aspire Respiratory Products is committed to future research and validation of the EMST150 and its other products. Only through continuing to study the effects and benefits of our products can we share these empirical results with healthcare professionals and individual consumers.
From its origins in 1998, when the EMST150 was tested by high school band members playing wind instruments, we have been research-focused in terms of providing validation of its benefits. That first study and dozens of subsequent studies covering diverse patient groups and respiratory-focused objectives are available on this website. As you will discover in reading these studies, the effectiveness of the EMST150 has been repeatedly and demonstrably proven in addressing diverse respiratory needs.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) / Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
- Impact of expiratory strength training in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2016
- Impact of expiratory strength training in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Results of a randomized, sham-controlled trial 2018
Asthma
COVID Support
- Recovering From COVID-19 The Long Road: a Single Case Study
- Post COVID-19 Rehab Program
- Dr Dolan’s RMST success story
- Inspiratory muscle training for recovered COVID-19 patients after weaning from mechanical ventilation: A pilot control clinical study
- Inspiratory Muscle Training Speeds Up COVID-19 Recovery
- Low Intensity Respiratory Muscle Training in COVID-19 Patients after Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Retrospective Case-Series Study
COPD
- Clinical outcomes of expiratory muscle training in severe COPD patients
- Respiratory Muscle Training Can Improve Cognition, Lung Function, and Diaphragmatic Thickness Fraction in Male and Non-Obese Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Prospective Study
- Expiratory Muscle Strength Training for Dysphagia in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review
Head and Neck
- The Safety & Efficacy of EMST for Rehabilitation After Supracricoid Partial Laryngectomy: A Pilot Investigation
- Respiratory-Swallow Training in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
- Expiratory muscle strength training for radiation-associated aspiration after head and neck cancer: A case series
- No-Leak Speaking Valves and respiratory Muscle training: A perfect pairing for Early Intervention in the ICU
- Cough Strength and Expiratory Force in Aspirating and Non-aspirating Post-radiation Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
- Swallowing Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer Patients
- EMST Evaluated with Simultaneous High Resolution Manometry and Electromyography
Healthy Individuals
- The use of cough peak flow in the assessment of respiratory function in clinical practice – A narrative literature review
- The acute effects of a single session of expiratory muscle strength training on blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation in healthy adults
Lung Function / Exercise
- Expiratory muscle training and sensation of respiratory effort during exercise in normal subjects
- Examination of strength training and detraining effects in expiratory muscles
- Effect of Expiratory Resistive Loading in Expiratory Muscle Strength Training on Orbicularis Oris Muscle Activity
- Functional outcomes associated with expiratory muscle strength training: narrative review
- Respiratory muscle strength training: functional outcomes versus plasticity
- Surface electromyographic activity of the submental muscles during swallow and expiratory pressure threshold training tasks
- Respiratory strength training: concept and intervention outcomes
-
Expiratory muscle strength training and detraining: Effects on speech and cough prediction
-
The Effects of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) in Elite College Swimmers
Multiple Sclerosis
- Expiratory Muscle Strength Training: Speech Production Outcomes in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
- Expiratory muscle strength training in persons with multiple sclerosis having mild to moderate disability: effect on maximal expiratory pressure, pulmonary function, and maximal voluntary cough
- Effect of expiratory muscle strength training on voice & speech: An exploratory study in persons with Parkinson’s disease and MS
Parkinson’s Disease
- The Impact of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training on Speech Breathing in Individuals With Parkinson’s Disease: A Preliminary Study
- Impact of expiratory muscle strength training on voluntary cough and swallow function in Parkinson’s disease
- Impact of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) on Phonatory Performance in Parkinson’s Patients
- Aspiration and swallowing in Parkinson’s disease and rehabilitation with EMST: a randomized trial
- Expiratory Muscle Strength Training for Therapy in Pharyngeal Dysphagia in Parkinson’s Disease
- Speech and Swallow in Parkinson’s: Prehab and EMST
- Respiratory muscle strength training: treatment and response duration in a patient with early idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
- Tutorial on maximum inspiratory and expiratory mouth pressures in individuals with idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD) and the preliminary results of an expiratory muscle strength training program
-
Voice Alterations, Dysarthria, and Respiratory Derangements in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease
Pompe Disease
Seniors
- Implications of expiratory muscle strength training for rehabilitation of the elderly
- Effect of expiratory muscle strength training on elderly cough function
Sleep Apnea
- Short-term expiratory muscle strength training attenuates sleep apnea and improves sleep quality in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
- Respiratory Muscle Training in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Spinal Cord Injury
Stroke
- Effects of expiratory muscle strength training on swallowing function in acute stroke patients with dysphagia
- Effects of expiratory muscle strength training on oropharyngeal dysphagia in subacute stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial (abstract)
- Rehabilitation of Swallowing and Cough Functions Following Stroke: An Expiratory Muscle Strength; Training Trial
Swallowing
- Dysphagia
- Voluntary cough production and swallow disfunction in Parkinson’s Disease, Pitts et al
- Optimizing Respiratory-Swallowing Coordination in Patients With Oropharyngeal Head and Neck Cancer, Martin-Harris
- Effects of expiratory muscle strength training on swallowing function in acute stroke patients with dysphagia, Moon et al
- Effect of expiratory muscle strength training on swallowing-related muscle strength in community-dwelling elderly individuals: a randomized controlled trial
- Submental sEMG and hyoid movement during Mendelsohn maneuver, effortful swallow, and expiratory muscle strength training
Voice Disorders
- The Effects of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training on Voice and Associated Factors in Medical Professionals With Voice Disorders
- Respiratory muscle strength training applications for voice and speech disorders
Vocalists, Professional Voice Users & Musicians
- The Effects of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training on Voice and Associated Factors in Medical Professionals With Voice Disorders.
- Expiratory Muscle Training increases pressure support in high school band students
- Treatment outcomes for professional voice users
- The effects of expiratory pressure threshold training on “high risk” singers