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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:38 AM
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Didgeridoo linked to sleep apnoea cure
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=78765

They studied 25 patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea and two with a snoring problem.

Half the group were given didgeridoo lessons and asked to practise playing daily at home for four months.

The other half were told they were on a waiting list for lessons.

Daytime sleepiness and apnoea scores improved significantly in the didgeridoo group, the British Medical Journal reported.
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bmbmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:44 AM
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1. Interesting study.

What is half of twenty-five?
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:46 AM
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2. in bush-math or base ten?
Because one is a mandate.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:46 AM
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3. I don't know what the hell to think about this!
I use a CPAP machine and it has literally changed my life.

Just whom do I contact to give me didgeridoo lessons? LOL
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morningglory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:52 AM
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4. I wonder if the deep breathing and breath control helps... n/t
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:55 AM
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5. I'm not sure
if my wife would prefer either the snoring or the CPAP noise compared to to me playing a didgeridoo in the house. Not to mention what my neighbors would do.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:56 AM
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6. I don't know
I'm thinking about learning how to play so I can give lessons......there obviously will (or should) be a market for it. At one time I was looking into this snoring thing, and did find some professional singer that had put together a singing exercises to tone the upper palate, or something like that. However one wonders if a bunch of loud LaLaLas around the house (or the sound of a didgeridoo) might be as annoying as snoring to one's partner. Still, I love music and this seems like fun to me. Makes sense that one could tone the throat with exercises.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:06 AM
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8. Might as well go to the source..... pic
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:00 AM
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7. oh. no.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:12 AM
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9. Mp3..... diggity diggity dew!!! Didgeridoo MP3 found.
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 09:25 AM by 4MoronicYears
Edited to remove Mp3.... need to find an authentic one... my bad.

http://www.charly-didgeridoo.com/telecharger.php?Fichier_a_telecharger=grande_sagesse.mp3&chemin=music/
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schrodingers_cat Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:24 AM
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10. Glad I had the surgery instead, this method would most definitely
scare the hell out of the furbeasties at home. Very interesting nonetheless - I can see how toning ones throat muscles could improve this condition. Maybe we could learn throat singing as well - I bet it would work too, and it would be a good accompaniment to the digeridoo.
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Danascot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:31 AM
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11. For what it's worth
my wife said my snoring problem disappeared when I lost weight.
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haydukelives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:29 PM
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15. Ditto
I lost 45 lbs. and hardly ever wake up from apnea now.
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:50 AM
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12. Didsgeridoos are amazing
I've been playing for years. Love every second of it. It's an instrument that can take decades to perfect, yet is fun to play from day one.

No complaints from the neighbors yet either, though I don't have any close ones.

I still snore though.
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Danascot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:29 AM
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13. It's a slippery slope
from didgeridoos to boomerangs. Consider yourself warned.
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 06:28 PM
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14. It's cool . .
. . . got one already for the neighbors in case they complain.
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