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The Secret to Thriving with COPD -
Recently awarded no 8 COPD Self Help book in the world!

If you have been diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, this book is nothing less than a manual on how to save your own life. THE SECRET TO THRIVING WITH COPD is written in two voices. Rachel Garrod is a twenty-five-year veteran in the battle against pulmonary disease. Dawn Lawson was diagnosed as “very end-stage” in January of 2015 and told she would not live out the week. We will explain pulmonary rehabilitation. What it is and how you can use it not only to keep the health you have you have, but to regain some of the health you have lost. We will attempt to explain why, in so many cases, it is a secret. Rachel Garrod was at the forefront of pulmonary rehabilitation. She found herself, time and again, trying to climb over a wall of medical professionals who insisted that sick people should stay sick. She has participated in hundreds of studies that prove conclusively that rehab works, and she continues to help people diagnosed with COPD find the road to health. Sadly, that mindset still exists. Ongoing rehab, for the most part, is not available. Dawn Lawson found out about pulmonary rehabilitation from Facebook. When she asked for a referral, she was told she was “too sick”. Facebook told her “They are wrong. Fight for it.” She did, and two respiratory therapists and an exercise physiologist literally brought her back from the dead. A typical internet search on COPD gives you inhaler ads, the four stages, and tells you that COPD is a disease that worsens over time. Pulmonary rehabilitation can turn COPD into a manageable condition that improves over time.

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Breathing exercises

Breathing exercises

Breathing exercises

A Guide to Better Breathing - Online Course

This unique East meets West perspective to breathing offers practical advice and techniques that will enable the participant to learn skills from two recognised effective approaches. Respiratory physiotherapy has proven benefits on quality of life, reducing breathlessness and managing anxiety for people with breathing problems / dysfunctional breathing patterns. Yoga has been taught and practised for hundreds of years and is known to reduce stress, improve positivity and health. In yoga the breathing practices are known as Pranayama as in addition to breathing in oxygen we breathe in Prana (cosmic energy ) it enters into every area of the body physical, vital and mental and Ayama means control, regulation or mastery. Breathing is a vital process if we don’t breathe we don’t live. Sorrow pain and anger can all disrupt breathing. Respiratory diseases such as asthma and emphysema will also affect our breathing. In this course, Sally Williams, a qualified yoga teacher and Rachel Garrod, a PhD qualified Respiratory Physiotherapist will explain how we breathe, what dysfunctional breathing is and how it causes poor health. You will watch as we demonstrate and teach you 7 practical breathing techniques that will improve ventilation, maximise lung volume and help you breathe freely through stress. This unique combination of Pranayama and Respiratory Physiotherapy will help reduce fears and anxiety and improve the quality of our breathing. This course is for anyone who wishes to learn, from specialists in recognised fields of health care, how to breathe better and feel better.

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation: An Interdiciplinary Approach This addition to the field of pulmonary rehabilitation will be used as a practical resource which demonstrates academic insight into new and emerging aspects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) rehabilitation. This book provides a European perspective with international experts contributing to the various chapters. There have been significant advances in pulmonary rehabilitation in the last decade and this is reflected in the use of up to date research and clinical opinion. Comprehensive chapters address pulmonary rehabilitation from the perspective of the patient, nursing, physio, occupational and medical therapists. Recent evaluations concern nutritional implications in COPD, selection criteria and specificity of exercise. The book examines psycho-social influences on COPD and provides practical "best evidence" treatment advice. An exciting and promising "look to the future" by Professor Calverley concludes the book. Pulmonary Rehabilitation: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an integrated evaluation of the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation on patient care, with critical assessment of outcome tools and the important contribution of an interdisciplinary approach.

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