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N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,734 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:12 AM Mar 2020

Breathing exercises may be important...

Reading about this virus it seems to settle in the lungs or makes breathing very difficult. I’ve been hospitalized a few times and always have been given breathing exercises to do especially before surgery.
Working your lungs out now may be beneficial in the future if you contract the virus or not. I’m 67 had a few heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, aortic repair...whatever. I’ve practiced meditation and yoga for maybe 20 years. Deep breathing is part of those two practices therefore I recognize it’s importance. It has helped me through those instances listed above and quells stress and depressive thoughts now.

It was always stressed to me do breathing exercises now...help ward off pneumonia later.
I’m hoping some of DU’s finest with medical knowledge help to expand this post.


Here’s s one place to start...

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/protecting-your-lungs/breathing-exercises.html




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Breathing exercises may be important... (Original Post) N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 OP
Good idea leftieNanner Mar 2020 #1
I read an article 10 days or so ago saying the same thing MLAA Mar 2020 #2
BTW...surgery was postponed till? N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #3
I have posted many times how important deep breathing exercise is at140 Mar 2020 #4
I agree duforsure Mar 2020 #5
KICK! Good technique. I was taught this after surgery. It helped calm me. Guilded Lilly Mar 2020 #6
I've been doing yoga online every day for over a week now. Raftergirl Mar 2020 #7
My wife the nurse started us doing this last week. Canoe52 Mar 2020 #8
Thanks! (nt) Blecht Mar 2020 #9
Here's how I exercise my lungs: Read something about Trump and then start hyperventilating. n/t zackymilly Mar 2020 #10
Awesome technique.. N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #12
Lol. cwydro Mar 2020 #21
here are some good mindfulness exercises I've used jorgevlorgan Mar 2020 #11
Thanks for posting! I posted that link and another one earlier but can no longer kick the thread: highplainsdem Mar 2020 #13
Kicked it for ya...thx for the link...nt N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #14
How do you kick a thread? Prosper Mar 2020 #15
Write a reply... N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #17
As explained above, replies of any type will kick a thread, unless it's been too long since the highplainsdem Mar 2020 #19
Thanks for adding a reply there to try to kick it, but after a certain amount of time that doesn't highplainsdem Mar 2020 #18
I didn't realize it was that old... N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #20
Yes. And again, I'm glad you posted this! highplainsdem Mar 2020 #22
Found this exercise posted by TygrBright in another op... N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #16

MLAA

(17,298 posts)
2. I read an article 10 days or so ago saying the same thing
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:17 AM
Mar 2020

My husband is high risk, so I dug out the spirometer (breathing exercise device) they gave him at the hospital last summer and he is using it daily now. I then thought it wouldn’t hurt me, so I dug up a second one we had tucked away. You don’t need the spirometer to do breathing exercises.

at140

(6,110 posts)
4. I have posted many times how important deep breathing exercise is
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:26 AM
Mar 2020

especially now with covid-19 which attacks lungs more than any other organ.
Simply take a deep breath, hold it as long as possible, then exhale.
Repeat 10 times in morning and evening.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
5. I agree
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:28 AM
Mar 2020

Watched on you tube one of the people aboard the ship off of Japan used a lung exercise to help his breathing improve when he got bad.

Raftergirl

(1,287 posts)
7. I've been doing yoga online every day for over a week now.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 11:09 AM
Mar 2020

The breathing part is very important, not only for physical health but for mental health too.

Even if you don’t want to do the pose part, just do the breathing part.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,734 posts)
17. Write a reply...
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:13 PM
Mar 2020

Kick post a reply, could be as little as “...” meaning no words
Rec of course is hitting the Rec button

For both and no input but like the post...K&R ...Kick and Rec

highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
19. As explained above, replies of any type will kick a thread, unless it's been too long since the
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:15 PM
Mar 2020

previous reply (or since the OP was posted; not sure which).

highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
18. Thanks for adding a reply there to try to kick it, but after a certain amount of time that doesn't
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:13 PM
Mar 2020

actually kick an old thread back to page 1. Not sure how long a time kicking works with threads, but after a certain point it doesn't. So I've been linking to it where it seemed helpful.

And I also posted it in the Health group, as one of the people replying suggested, and it's still on page 1 there:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1142

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