Rehabilitation - respiratory therapy: initial consultation

• recovering from COVID-19 who have not returned to their full respiratory function from before the disease,
• with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
• with asthma,
• with cystic fibrosis,
• with interstitial lung disease,
• with heart failure,
• with pulmonary hypertension.

• learning how to breathe properly,
• exercises that facilitate or hinder inhalation and exhalation,
• resistance exercises,
• exercises for breathing muscles and diaphragm,
• effective cough training,
• general conditioning and endurance exercises,
• postural drainage to evacuate secretions in the respiratory tract.

Patients are asked to bring with them any tests done after the illness to the initial consultation.