Theraband exercises

Theraband exercises serve to strengthen the muscles, improve breathing coordination and mobilize the chest. Sit down on a chair, pass the Theraband under your thighs and cross it over on your lap and grasp the ends with your hands that are loosely placed on the outside of your thighs. Now breathe out through the lip brake and pull the Theraband outwards and upwards at the same time.

With the inhalation slowly return to the starting position. 5 repetitions. Sit straight and upright on a chair and wrap the Theraband around a door handle.

Grasp each end with your hands. Breathe out with the lip brake and at the same time pull the band backwards with slightly bent arms. To make it more difficult, you can stretch one leg forward.

When breathing in, slowly return to the starting position. 5-10 repetitions. For this exercise stand on the Thera band, cross it in front of your body and hold the ends in your hands.

The legs are about shoulder width apart. Breathe in and pull your shoulders backwards so that your upper body straightens up, palms pointing forward. When breathing out, return to the starting position with the lip brake.

5 repetitions.

Sit down on a chair, pass the Thera band under your thighs and cross it over your lap and grasp the ends with your hands that are loosely on the outside of your thighs. Now breathe out through the lip brake and pull the Theraband outwards and upwards at the same time.
With the inhalation slowly return to the starting position. 5 repetitions.
Sit straight and upright on a chair and wrap the Theraband around a door handle. Grasp the ends with your hands.
Breathe out with the lip brake and at the same time pull the band backwards with slightly bent arms. To make it more difficult, you can stretch one leg forward. When breathing in, slowly return to the starting position.

5-10 repetitions.
For this exercise, stand on the Theraband, cross it in front of your body and hold the ends in your hands. The legs are about shoulder width apart. Breathe in and pull your shoulders backwards so that your upper body straightens up, palms pointing forward.
When breathing out, return to the starting position with the lip brake. 5 repetitions.

>In the treatment of COPD, physiotherapy plays a very important role alongside drug treatment. Through various treatment methods, specially trained physiotherapists try to strengthen the respiratory muscles of the patient, to alleviate cough attacks and to mobilize solid bronchial mucus.

This is intended to optimize the effect of the medication and to help the patient to better deal with the illness, so that in an emergency he can take specific countermeasures to help himself.Special breathing techniques help patients in situations of sudden respiratory distress to remain calm and to actively control their own breathing. Through regular training with the therapist or other patients in a group, physiotherapy also achieves good results on the psycho-social level, as it prevents COPD patients from becoming isolated and possibly falling into depression. In principle, physiotherapy develops a training plan that is individually tailored to the patient, which is based exactly on the stage of the disease and the needs of the patient. By setting goals within the therapy, the patient is motivated to work towards a certain goal.