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GroovTube

A blue oblong device with handles on either side and a small tubular opening at the top. Next to it is an iPad with an image of a giraffe's head and neck against the sky.
Product Type: 
Primary device
Manufacturer Name: 
Unique Perspectives Ltd
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Product Description: 

The GroovTube is a device designed for use by people with breathing, speech, or oral motor disabilities that makes breathing and oral motor skills visible and analyzable. It turns a person's breath into real-time image effects.

Main Features: 

  • The device is connected to an iPad.
  • Users inhale or exhale into the mouthpiece of the GroovTube, and airflow is recorded and converted into visual effects in an app specially developed for the purpose.
  • The hardware consists of an input device, an interface, and connection cables.
  • Also, several mouthpieces are available.
  • Users can hold the GroovTube in their hands, or they can place it on a tripod.
  • There are several apps for different purposes and different ages.
  • The apps have various training levels and game elements, which is designed to make the exercises challenging, and increase the motivation of the user.
  • The apps provide several possibilities and levels of training for breathing techniques, among others:
    • Enhancing conscious inhaling and exhaling.
    • Visualizing the intensity of inhaling and exhaling.
    • Teaching a rhythm for inhaling and exhaling.
  • Visual feedback of breathing provides a major enhancement of the training effect of exercise.
  • The element of play gives extra motivation to the patient.
  • The reward is instantaneous.
  • The mouthpieces are interchangeable, so each user can use his mouthpiece.
  • The device is suitable for breathing training and oral motor training and can be used in a therapeutic setting as well as at home.
  • In rehabilitation institutes, the GroovTube is used in respiratory therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy.
  • In practice, the use of the GroovTube makes the patient aware of his respiration.
  • Respiratory muscle training can result in maintaining better condition of the lungs, and a better cough in children with neuromuscular disease.

Options & Accessories: 

  • The GroovTube app measures the strength of a user's inward or outward breath and uses it to blow up or distort a photo from the camera roll. 
  • The FairHammer app is based on the classic Fairground hammer game. Inhaling or exhaling will move the ‘mercury’ towards the top of a thermometer-style graphic.
  • The Billiard Breath app uses the strength of the user's breath is used to move a set of billiard balls from the bottom to the top in different sequences. 

More Information: 

See Manufacturer's website.