With COPD, daily activities can be more tiring. Climbing stairs, walking, or doing household chores can lead to shortness of breath, fatigue, or coughing more quickly. As a result, people often start to move less on their own.
Moving less may feel pleasant in the short term, but it often leads to a decrease in fitness and muscle strength. This makes physical activity increasingly difficult, creating a vicious cycle.
At Fysio Roode in Berghem, we specialize in pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD, asthma, and recovery after coronavirus (COVID-19). With targeted guidance, we help you regain confidence in movement.
Do you recognize these symptoms?
With COPD, you may notice that:
- you get short of breath more easily with exertion
- Your fitness is deteriorating
- coughing occurs more frequently during exercise
- daily activities take more energy
- you started exercising or moving less
- fatigue plays a bigger role.
By training purposefully, you can learn to cope better with these complaints.
When physiotherapy helps with COPD
More stamina and less shortness of breath
By training in a safe and controlled manner, you work on fitness and endurance. This often makes daily activities easier to sustain.
More strength and confidence in movement
Besides fitness, we focus on muscle strength and building an active lifestyle. This makes exercise less strenuous.
Better management of breathing and coughing
We provide practical advice and exercises to breathe more efficiently and better manage shortness of breath or congested mucus.
How we help you
Personal treatment plan
Together, we will create a treatment plan that suits your complaints, capacity, and goals. You will train individually or in small groups, always at your own level.
The treatment may consist of:
- Explanation and advice about COPD
- breathing exercises
- ACBT - Airway Clearance Breathing Techniques
- Condition training
- strength training
- relaxation exercises
Physiotherapy appointment for COPD
Do you want to move more easily and gain more confidence in your fitness? Contact Fysio Roode in Berghem. Together, we will look at which guidance best suits your situation.
