Breathe Well and Live Well With COPD ─ A 28-Day Breathing Exercise Plan

Brindley, who has asthma and worked with doctors, physiotherapists, and nurses to develop a professional training course for the use of therapeutic breathing exercises, offers a guide to using these exercises to improve day-to-day breathing, for those with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and physiotherapists, physical therapists, and carers who work with them. The exercises are presented in a 28-day program and focus on calming breathing, awareness, nose-breathing, controlling coughing, and stretching to reduce hyperventilation, limit hyperinflation, and increase fitness. She describes how the techniques work; their basis in established breathing exercises, Buteyko, and yoga; and their steps, with color photos. There is no index. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Janet Brindley came across therapeutic breathing exercises in 1998. They dramatically improved her asthma, and that of her fourteen-year-old son. She then left her job as a hospital biochemist and taught yoga and Buteyko breathing techniques. She has since worked with doctors, physiotherapists and nurses to develop a professional training course. This training course was used as part of an MSc Respiratory Physiotherapy module at Coventry University. She lives near London, UK.