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Breathe easier

My focus is to help you maximise your breathing function and help you get the most out of your lungs.

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I use an array of techniques to support you in your breathing, depending on your condition, what your clinical needs are and, what you would like to achieve. These range of strategies will assist you whatever your respiratory conditions, enhancing your quality of life and overall well-being.

Breathing is essential to life providing the energy the body needs for vital processes and for activity. Breathing exercises serve as the cornerstone of what I do, we will take a closer look at yours and help you to improve it. This could mean keeping your airways clear, helping you with the sensation of breathlessness, enhance your performance or even just help with relaxation. The aim is to maximise the functional ability of your lungs.

I've listed below some of the specific clinical and aerobic exercises below, but natually if you've any questions then just get in contact and ask.
Breathing pattern re-education
Respiratory physio works on correcting your breathing pattern step by step. Treatment is individual and corrects altered biomechanics/physiology by making sure you are using the right muscles, have the correct posture, take the right size breaths and use your nose etc.

It also unpicks the psychology of breathing and what has happened to bring you to where you are, give you tools to manage breathing attacks now and over the course of your treatment work on stopping these attacks/ episodes from happening all together. You will be able to self manage your condition once you have completed your sessions and feel more in control. Find out more on the conditions treated page.

Post Covid Recovery Support:
Recovery from Covid-19 is not straight forwards and is recovery is different for everyone who is affected. After an assessment to understand where you are in your journey as there can be multi-system involvement your treatment may involve breathing pattern re-education, which you can read about on this page. This works to manage your breathlessness, fatigue support which would include advice on activity and pacing, exercise when you are ready for this and support/ guidance on how to manage things day to day as things can be very up and down.You can read more about this on the conditions treated page.

Personalised Exercise:
You may have had a prolonged hospital stay, recent exacerbation of your lung condition, recent heart or lung surgery whatever the reason respiratory physio will complete an exercise test to see how fit you currently are and ensure that you are safe to exercise.

During your exercise sessions a goal is set with you (to motivate you when you are working so hard), your vitals are monitored and you learn all about exercise: what you should be feeling, how to progress and how hard you should be pushing yourself. These things can be sometimes hard to know but you will supported along the way using individualised education through your exercise journey. You will be taught both resistance and cardiovascular exercises but never more than what you can manage. A home programme will be set for you to continue your exercise sessions and plans will be set in place to ensure that you increase your physical activity levels and are able to sustain this.

Airway Clearance:
If you have a lung condition which means that you produce a lot of phlegm, you where taught a technique a very long time ago, you have a chest infection or are susceptible to getting chest infections then physiotherapy will work with you to improve your airway hygiene.

This means we find a personalised clearance technique for you which may involve breathing techniques and possibly a device too, it all depends on what we find.

Breathlessness Management:
Respiratory physiotherapists are dedicated to managing your breathlessness which may be caused by long term conditions. Depending on the cause for your breathlessness you may need various combinations of treatments.

Treatment involves getting you to self manage using non-pharmacological approaches which will be multi-factorial and could include breathing techniques, relaxation techniques, anxiety management, gentle exercise and pacing/fatigue management.

Cough Management:
Respiratory physiotherapists are dedicated to managing your breathlessness which may be caused by long term conditions. Depending on the cause for your breathlessness you may need various combinations of treatments.

Treatment involves getting you to self manage using non-pharmacological approaches which will be multi-factorial and could include breathing techniques, relaxation techniques, anxiety management, gentle exercise and pacing/fatigue management.


I'm Helene, a Repiratory Physiotherapist with over 15 years experience in supporting people with their breathing. My focus is to help you maximise your breathing function and help you get the most out of your lungs.
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07785 611 868
helene@hbhphysio.co.uk

Stride Healthcare
Sussex Cricket Grounds
Eaton Road, Hove
East Sussex, BN3 3AN

Total Therapy Studios
2 Denne Parade, Horsham
West Sussex, RH12 1JD

Six Physio
39 High Street, Lindfield
Haywards Heath
West Sussex, RH16 2HJ
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Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
www.csp.org.uk

ACPRC
www.acprc.org.uk/account/

BBA
www.buteykobreathing.org

Physiotherapy for BPD
www.physiotherapyforbpd.org.uk

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