Lung Conditions

Extensive research has shown that exercise is highly beneficial for people living with Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs), such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma, occupational lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension.

Exercise is widely recognised as one of the best self-managing strategies to help you maintain your lifestyle, improve wellbeing and reduce symptoms like breathlessness. You may think that exercising with a lung condition is formidable, but it is imperative in the management of your lung condition. During and after exercise, it keeps the lungs healthy because your heart and lungs work harder together to supply more oxygen that your muscles demand.

Therefore, when your body becomes more efficient at delivering more oxygen to your muscles, this in turn will increase your fitness and decrease symptoms of breathlessness. An Accredited Exercise Physiologist can deliver exercises designed to strengthen the muscles of the neck, chest, diaphragm and muscles between the ribs which all work together to help you to improve your breathing.

With the right guidance from our Accredited Exercise Physiologists, you are in safe hands to exercise regularly and implement movement into your daily routine – and you’ll feel better for it too!