Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Chronic Lung Conditions

This video is about Pulmonary Rehabilitation. It is exercises and education that you can do at home to improve your knowledge and increase your exercise tolerance to help you deal with a chronic lung condition.

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[TisEyerish]

This looks like a good program to start out with because all the exercises look relatively mild. I'm 76 and have COPD, so I have to start out easy. I can't do any of the exercises that require use of a wall...my walls are laden with photos and artwork that reflect my heritage...Scots and Irish. Thank you for having this available; I appreciate it. I especially appreciate getting to listen to the wonderful accents you speak with!

[suewright]

An excellent and very informative video, very many thanks indeed.😊 I do exercises on a daily basis and I’ve really benefitted from them. Recently after badgering my Dr I was really fortunate to be able to go on 2 week Pulmonary Rehab course twice a week for 6 weeks. I can’t tell you how brilliant it was! If any other lung disease patients feel they would like to give it a go, please ask your Dr, and in necessary, give badgering him/her…after all it’s our bodies we’re doing the very best we can for! 😊

[ninij]

I still crave a B&M wood tip sweet, because when I quit, I wasn't truly ready. It has been almost 9 months since I was hospitalized for pneumonia. I was in the hospital for 5 days and could not smoke, and I knew then that I had better take advantage of it.

So when your craving a smoke, just know your not alone, and we can do this together.
💜✌🏼

[sageartchannel]

I don't understand how people still don't know or to think to turn the captions on, instead of complaining her accent! She is a native speaker

[angelaillidgeparry]

Just what I need is this video, I watched right through yesterday and it's perfect for me, so I've started it this morning thank you so much, I have had copd for 14 years hopefully this will change my life 👍🙂

[celiakoni]

Thank you for sharing I really love this video and I've started using this everyday 💜

[suewright]

A great video! Thank you so very much indeed, much appreciated.

[pemylachica]

What a helpful exercise for pulmonary rehabilitation. Thank you do much Ma'am.

[robertmurray]

Pity more NHS sites don't make this video available

[lenasoares]

Mesmo sem entender o que ela fala, amei! 👏🏼🙌🏼❤

[lalaland]

I can do these and still breathe! Thank you!

[DeborahLArmstrong]

Thank you for this video! From Washington State, US <3

[ronsouther]

I greatly enhanced my breathing using the BreatheEasy Lung Expander Exerciser! Completely changed my breathing, my endurance and QOL. I’ve been using it for over five years. I got it on Amazon for $20.

[peaceandlove]

Wonderful!!!!
Would add to stop dairy, refined sugar, gluten, processed and junk food, carbonated drinks, coffee, chocolate, cold drinks, spicy foods.
Do grounding, 14 hr fasting after dinner, sauna, sun baths. Vitamin C, D3, k2, potassium, magnesium, B12. Warm water with lime on empty stomach.
Plenty of fluids. Loose weight.

[dreameroftheworld]

EVERY video I go to for COPD, not one patient is on oxygen as I was diagnosed at age 48 and put on 3 liters oxygen at that time...now I am 66 and the same....on oxygen....

[playingwithsticks]

Would be helpful to say how many repetitions or how long to do each exercise.

[TheJudeJane]

The last section of this video should be the first part. Why? There is ZERO mention of diaphragm breathing at the beginning.
The exercises don’t have any instruction on when to inhale through the nose and exhaling for twice that time through PURSED LIPS, as if blowing out a candle but more SLOWLY and SILENTLY. This help rid the lungs of trapped air, the waste product of breathing.
People with emphysema have a terminal illness affecting their lungs. They can improve quality of life, but there is no cure. Their body can no longer rid itself of “used breath”, and air can’t escape the lungs. Bad air clogs the transport of blood attempting to pump throughout the cells and keeping the heart muscle free of disease.
If you smoke, whether it was two a day for a week or two packs a day for decades, or if you still smoke today - get used to the thought of 24/7 oxygen to stay alive with a tube in your nose pumping the air into your damaged lungs.
Quit smoking, get a PFT1 breathing test IMMEDIATELY!! No need to suffer because there are meds to help ease the pain of emphysema - whether Stage 1, stage 2, stage 3 or stage 4 (the END-STAGE).
Read the book by Allen Carr to help you to stop smoking - he tells you to KEEP SMOKING WHILE YOU READ THE BOOK. I guarantee you will begin to seriously consider quitting by short Chapter 2. It is funny, informative, and better than a nicotine patch. Why buy nicotine, the killer, and pump it into your bloodstream via your arm? Read the book! If you never smoked, DON’T!!

[heatherhollingsworth]

I have participated in a number of videos regarding COPD and the first thing you are shown is breathing exercises before starting any of the exercises, etc but I found they only mentioned breathing near the end of the sessions.

[lynduff]

I’m a Londoner and can fully understand the accent - it’s English!

[cliffbird]

i was gasping for breath just doing the warm up lol.
Cant do half the excersices in this vid cause of other health problems on top of empysema.

I aint having another flu jab. last time i had 1 i ended up with flu and nearly died. only had flu once in my life and it was 2 weeks after having the flu jab.
Half the ppl i know who had the flu jab ended up getting flu.