How Do You Improve Breathing With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
COPD cannot be cured, but there are things you can do to prevent its progress and changes you can make to improve current stage. Use these four steps and you will experience positive continuing result for the years to come. Repeated exposure to tobacco smoke is one thing, that causes COPD. Quitting smoking can slow or even stop the progression of COPD. Respiratory therapy includes simple breathing exercise you can do anytime and anywhere. If you are short of breath, breathe in slowly through your nose and keep your mouth close. Breathe out gently and again slowly through your pursed lips. This will relax your muscles and keep your airways open longer, which will prolong exhalation and slow your breathing rate. As the old air moves out of your lungs, it will make space for the new air to enter. Train a coordination of your skeletal muscles, so you will not use your upper body muscles to help you breathe, when you short of breath. Rotation of your head, neck, shoulders and elbows will st
