Health and Wellness

If you engage in intense and sustained exercise – things like wrestling, or boot camp, or martial arts – you […]

When people are out running they can sometimes struggle when trying to draw in oxygen to cope with the demands […]

Weak inspiratory muscles can be the result of a number of causes, including disease, but the amount of ‘exercise’ they […]

Physician’s Weekly discloses how older women are more likely to report having asthma than older men, and also have a 30% […]

This new study investigates the effects of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) on smokers and non-smokers. Researchers from Ondokuz Mayıs University and […]

Hay fever may make symptoms of asthma, such as coughing and wheezing, feel worse. In fact, people with respiratory symptoms […]

‘Screen apnoea’ is a new, 21st Century condition. The term is a play on the name for the serious condition, […]

We came across this study (Oct 2014) from the Clinical Interventions in Aging which we felt worth sharing because it’s […]

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), are consulting again on the safety and efficacy of a new asthma […]

We thought we’d write a very quick blog on why it’s important to breathe deeply from your diaphragm, after all […]

One of the most common questions asked by people with COPD is how it affects breathing. To understand this, it’s […]

Professor Stephen Spiro, Deputy Chairman of the British Lung Foundation, shares an observation he made when people try to breathe […]