{"id":16999,"date":"2020-04-26T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/respiratory-physiotherapy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:45:28","slug":"respiratory-physiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/respiratory-physiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Physiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Respiratory Physiotherapy is a specialty that <strong>tries to prevent, maintain and\/or improve any respiratory affectation<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its main objective is to <strong>achieve an adequate respiratory function adapted to the efforts of daily life of each person<\/strong><em>.<\/em> This is achieved through <strong>correct bronchial hygiene<\/strong> (mobilization and expulsion of secretions), improvement of <strong>pulmonary ventilation<\/strong> (reexpansion and increase of respiratory capacity) and <strong>retraining for effort<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Respiratory physiotherapy is <strong>useful in situations of both obstructive pulmonary diseases<\/strong> (COPD, asthma, bronchitis&#8230;) and <strong>restrictive diseases<\/strong> (neuromuscular, pneumonia, atelectasis&#8230;). As well as in other situations, such as long periods of bed rest, people with reduced mobility, thoracic and abdominal surgeries, etc.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The application of <strong>a respiratory physiotherapy program must be totally individualized and adapted to each person<\/strong>. It is designed by combining inspiratory and expiratory techniques, through which work is done with different volumes and flows of air in different postures and movements, and with a lung retraining program. In addition, it can be complemented with the use of specific devices designed to train respiratory capacity (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/inspirometro-de-incentivo\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Incentive Inspirometer<\/a>&#8220;), mobilize secretions ( Acappella\u00ae, Flutter\u00ae, Cough Assist\u00ae) or train muscular strength ( Threshold\u00ae).    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/que-hacemos\/unidad-de-neuro-rehabilitacion\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Neuro-rehabilitation Unit<\/a> assesses each particular case from a holistic and integral point of view; including, if necessary, specific respiratory physiotherapy techniques. The <a href=\"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/que-hacemos\/unidad-de-neuro-rehabilitacion\/equipo-unidad-de-neuro-rehabilitacion\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">team<\/a> designs an individualized plan, both in acute and chronic phases, graded and progressive, through which the patient acquires tools that allow him\/her to improve symptoms, optimize lung function and effort capacity, and thus positively impact on their quality of life. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BEATRIZ-MARTIN-ROJOjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1305\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  Author:  <a href=\"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/que-hacemos\/unidad-de-neuro-rehabilitacion\/equipo-unidad-de-neuro-rehabilitacion\/beatriz-martin-rojo\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Beatriz Mart\u00edn Rojo, Physiotherapist specialized in neuro-rehabilitation.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory Physiotherapy is a specialty that tries to prevent, maintain and\/or improve any respiratory affectation. Its main objective is to achieve an adequate respiratory function adapted to the efforts of daily life of each person. This is achieved through correct bronchial hygiene (mobilization and expulsion of secretions), improvement of pulmonary ventilation (reexpansion and increase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569,652,557,558],"tags":[722,723,724,721,715,709,725,726,727,728,729],"class_list":["post-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinical-neurology","category-covid-19-en","category-neuro-rehabilitation","category-parkinsons-and-movement-disorders","tag-acappella-en","tag-asthma","tag-bronchitis","tag-epoc-en","tag-neuro-rehabilitation-en","tag-physiotherapy","tag-physiotherapy-madrid","tag-respiratory-physiotherapy","tag-ruber-physiotherapy","tag-ruber-rehabilitation","tag-threshold-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17000,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions\/17000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neurologiaclinica.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}