The Basics
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Here you’ll find basic information on a variety of lung diseases. We know everybody learns in different ways and that’s why we’ve provided material you can print out and take to your doctor, links to an abundance of information, images, videos, and audio recordings to enhance your learning.

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New Survey – COPD Needs

COPD and Exercise-Induced Asthma Surveys

Images

• Coming soon

Videos

• Breathing techniques videos
  These videos are for information purposes only. Watch the video, then discuss the techniques with your doctor or respiratory health professional before trying them on your own.

• Bronchoscopy
  
  
• How Do the Lungs Work?
  
  
• How Do Bronchodilators Work?
  
  
• What Is Abestosis?

• Pulmonary Rehab - part I
  Pulmonary Rehab - part II

• How You Catch a Cold

• Getting the Flu - Information About Influenza

• Bypass Stent - Ease Trial

• IBV Valve - Umbrella

• Muscle Strength

• Stent

• More COPD Videos
  See "COPD Videos" then click on “View Videos”
  - What is COPD?
  - Signs of COPD (includes the difference between COPD and Asthma)
  - Preventing COPD
  - Treating COPD

Ask the Doctor

• Dr. Francis Adams – General questions and answers

• Dr. Steven Kraker – Oxygen questions and answers

• Dr. Robert Sandhaus – Alternative Treatments for pulmonary disease

• Your Top Ten Oxygen Questions— Answered!

• Much more to come!
  

Audio

• 60-Second Check-up
  60-second audio lessons on different aspects of lung health

Glossary

• Pulmonary glossary
  

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

• Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
  
  
• The Relationship between Alpha-1 and COPD (PDF)

• Alpha-1 Education Day, Ann Arbor, Michigan-Resource Guide (PDF)

Alternative Treatments

• Alternative Treatments... Q&A with Dr. Robert Sandhaus

Asbestosis

• What Is Abestosis? Video

• Asbestos Claim

Asthma

• Asthma
  
  
• Take the Asthma Control Test
  
  
• Asthma Resources

• Advair coupon — Save $10 on your next prescription

Black Lung Disease

• Black Lung
  
  
• http://www.mesotheliomanews.com/
  
  
• http://www.mesotheliomanews.com/medical/mesothelioma-and-asbestos/
  

Breathing Techniques

• Breathing Techniques
  
  
• Breathing Techniques Extra COPD
  

COPD

• COPD

• COPD and Intimacy
  - Communicating with your partner
  - Body changes with age
  - Exercise and sexual activity
  - Less strenuous positions for intercourse
  - Importance of being together

• COPD Caregiver Info Lines
  

• COPD Caregiver Q&A
  

• COPD Information Line
  

• COPD Life Skills Tutorial
  - Your life with COPD
  - Experiencing Loss
  - The “Mark” of Oxygen
  - Accepting Help
  - COPD and your family
  - Medication effects list
  
  
• COPD Overview
  
  
• So You Have COPD...Now What?

• Take the WebMD Lung Health Check
  
  
• Ten Things You Can Do If You Have COPD
  
  
• 10 Terms You Need to Know
  10 very simple terms everyone should know

Doctors

• Finding the Right Physician for You
  
  
• 10 Tips on Talking to Your Doc

Eating Right with COPD – Nutritional Guidelines for People with COPD

• Nutritional Guidelines for People with COPD
  
  
• Controlling your Salt Intake

Exercise

• Basic Exercise Tips
  
  
• Exercise and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
  

First Steps

• First Steps to Better Breathing with Chronic Lung Disease

Flu

• Protecting Yourself from the Flu

General Lung Health

• American College of Chest Physicians - Patient Education Guides
  

Heart Failure

• Your Heart and Salt

Intimacy and COPD

• Being Close: COPD and Intimacy

Legislation

• Legislation Updates
  

Living Will / Advance Directives

• Advance Directives

Lung Function Testing (see Spirometry)

Medications

• How Do Bronchodilators Work? video

Mesothelioma

• Mesothelioma

• In the Shadow of 9/11

New Therapies

• Bypass Stent - Ease Trial

• Bypass Stent - Ease Trial (video)

• IBV Valve - Umbrella (video)

• IBV Valve - Umbrella Trial

• Muscle Strength (video)

• Stent (video)

Nutrition for COPD – Nutritional Guidelines for People with COPD

• Nutritional Guidelines for People with COPD
  
  
• Controlling your Salt Intake

Oxygen

• Oxygen: Your questions answered by lung doctors and specialists.

• Your Top Ten Oxygen Questions— Answered!

• More to come!

Pulmonary Fibrosis

• Pulmonary Fibrosis / Interstitial Lung Disease

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Exercise and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Exercise as a treatment for COPD and other chronic lung disease?
  If these people can do it, so can you! If your lung disease is severe, you can still improve through pulmonary rehab. If your lung disease is mild to moderate, going to pulmonary rehab now will help you live a healthier and fuller life.
  Pulmonary Rehab - part I
  Pulmonary Rehab - part II

Quack Therapy

• 10 Ways to Avoid Being Quacked

Quit Smoking

• “No Butts About It!” Quit Smoking!

Sexuality and COPD

• COPD and Intimacy

Spirometry

• Understanding your numbers
  Clear and simple explanations about pulmonary function testing and general interpretation of results. Our thanks to COPDCanada for sharing this with Breathing Better Living Well.
  
  
• Simple Spirometry by Helen Sorenson, MA RRT CPFT FAARC

Support Groups

• Find a Support Group
  
  
• Starting and Running a Pulmonary Support Group
  
  
• Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group
  

Travel

• Breathin’ Easy Travel Tips and Articles