Quote Originally Posted by ChickWithBrains View Post

For people I'm really concerned about (the elderly or poorly mobile), I prescribe a handy little device you see at the bedside of people who had surgery: an incentive spirometer. 10 times an hour, you suck on the tube of this device and a little ball goes up in a chamber. Your goal is to get the ball to hit the top of the chamber. It's like hitting the plate with the hammer at the carnival: the higher up the ball goes, the better you're doing!
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After my broken ribs and pneumothorax (sp?) this was the device from He!! I'd cry when the therapist would come into my room.

but like you said it was important to do.