Learn what COPD is and how your care team can help you manage it.
This video shows the steps for cleaning your inhaler.
This video shows how to prime your inhaler.
This video shows how to use a dry-powder diskus inhaler.
This video shows how to use a dry-powder twist inhaler.
This video shows how to use a nebulizer.
This video show how to use a steroid inhaler.
This video shows how to use an inhaler without a spacer (closed-mouth method).
This video shows the steps for using an inhaler.
This video shows how to use an inhaler without a spacer (open-mouth method).
The benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation at Willis-Knighton.
Watch this to understand what COPD is, how COPD affects the lungs, and the importance of taking your medications and working with your healthcare team to develop a treatment plan.
Watch this to help you understand what happens when you have a COPD flare-up, and what you can do if you have one.
Learn some common techniques that may help you quit smoking - a habit that is the most common cause of COPD.
A metered-dose inhaler sends medicine to the airways in your lungs. You must use the inhaler the right way for it to work. This video shows you how to use one with a spacer.
A metered-dose inhaler sends medicine to the airways in your lungs. You must use the inhaler the right way for it to work. This video shows you how to use one with a spacer and a mask.
A metered-dose inhaler sends medicine to the airways in your lungs. You must use the inhaler the right way for it to work. This video shows you how.
Watch this to get an introduction into the different type of oxygen therapy devices.
Watch this to help understand why you might be prescribed oxygen therapy, and how it might help you in your daily life.
This clip helps you to learn about Bronchial Hygiene techniques and how they help remove mucus from your lungs letting you breathe easier.
This clip will help you to understand that being at a healthy weight, and what you eat and how you eat affects how you feel with COPD.
Watching this will help you to understand that daily physical activity is very important when you have COPD.
This clip will help you to understand that it is important to find ways to conserve energy throughout the day when you have COPD.
This clip will help you understand that when you have COPD, joining a pulmonary rehabilitation program can help you to do more in your daily life.
Watch this clip to help understand ways to help cope with depression and other negative emotions when living with COPD.
This video is a patient story about Marilyn, who has COPD.
This video is a patient story about Michael, who has COPD.
Over 30 million Americans live with COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of COPD from pulmonary specialists and patients living with the disease.
Living a healthy life with COPD requires attention to medication, exercise, and other healthy habits. Pulmonary specialists explain how controlling air quality, avoiding infection, and smoking cessation are critical to keeping lungs healthy.
Learn to recognizing trouble signs and COPD triggers from patients living with COPD and pulmonary doctors.
Pulmonary rehabilitation, or rehab, is a program that helps you learn how to care for COPD. Find out more about how it can help you breathe better and manage both the physical and emotional stresses of COPD.
