What are the physical exercises for patients with chronic bronchitis?

The famous saying "Life is in motion" reveals that the essence of life exists is movement, and it also shows the important role of exercise in enhancing human vitality and prolonging life. The running water is not rot, and the household is not awkward. Exercise is the basic condition for strengthening the body. Physical exercise can increase the respiratory strength and increase the range of the diaphragm. When inhaling, the thorax is fully expanded, and more alveoli can be opened. Oxygen is inhaled in a large amount, and the breath becomes deeper and slower when exhaling. This kind of breathing not only obtains sufficient oxygen, but also ensures that the cells of the human body have sufficient oxygen supply, and the respiratory muscles are rested.

What are the physical exercises for patients with chronic bronchitis?

Studies have shown that lung ventilation, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide emissions during exercise can be increased by more than 10 times. In addition, physical activities are often carried out, the activity of the thorax is increased, and the calcification of the costal cartilage is delayed, which not only delays the aging of the respiratory organs, but also reduces the incidence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in the elderly. Because of this, patients with chronic bronchitis should exercise regularly.

Although there are many causes and recurrences of chronic bronchitis, such as infection, physical and chemical factors, cold stimuli and allergies, the fundamental reason is that the body's resistance is reduced and the ability to adapt to changes in the external environment is poor. Physical health, although stimulated by the cold, may not occur. After suffering from chronic bronchitis, active physical exercise enhances the ability to resist disease, thereby healing the disease and avoiding emphysema.


A large number of medical practices have proved that for the treatment of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, it is not possible to have headaches and pains, but to proceed from the whole, not only to do specialized breathing training, but also to enhance physical exercise and exercise. The function of the cardiovascular system and other organs of the body improves lung function by improving the condition of the whole body, prevents the occurrence of bronchitis and emphysema, and promotes the recovery of swollen function.

There is a typical example: a patient with chronic bronchitis and emphysema for more than 20 years, combined with the formation of pulmonary bullae, was hospitalized 10 years ago due to severe impairment of lung function. After the rescue was improved, under the encouragement of the doctor I continued to exercise for a long time, doing breathing exercises, and later learned to play squash. After 10 years, the comrade has been over the ages. His lung function has not deteriorated. Instead, he has been significantly improved. His usual asthma has disappeared. He has joined the old team and has participated in the competition repeatedly and achieved good results. This case is a good illustration of the effects of physical exercise.

Regular exercise in patients with chronic bronchitis helps to improve physical fitness, reduce the number of acute attacks and alleviate symptoms at the time of onset. However, patients with chronic bronchitis are sick people after all, so pay attention to the intensity of exercise during exercise, not too tired. The following describes several physical exercise methods for patients with chronic bronchitis:

1. Walking exercise

Walking is the easiest and safest exercise. If exercised properly, the effect is the same as jogging. There are two types of walking exercises, one is 3 to 4 kilometers per hour, 60 to 90 steps per minute, and the other is a slightly faster walking exercise (ie, fast walking). The general speed can be 5,000 per hour. Above m, 90~120 steps per minute.

Patients with chronic bronchitis who are weak or have no exercise habits can start from a slow walk and walk 500 to 1500 meters a day. Start with the speed you can adapt, then walk with a little faster speed, adapt to the fast walking exercise, and gradually increase the time and distance of exercise. Exercise for about half an hour every day, or take one exercise every other day, each exercise for more than 1 hour.

Walking at a faster speed is called urgency. Patients with chronic bronchitis can use intermittent exercise for 30 seconds, then rest for 60 seconds, repeat 30 times, total time is about 45 minutes, and exercise 2 or 3 times a week. This exercise method has a significant effect on improving the physical strength of patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

2. Jogging exercise

In recent years, fitness jogging has swept the world. Due to the slow pace of fitness jogging, the whole body can get active, which can effectively prevent the elastic decline of lung tissue. The oxygen inhaled during jogging is 8 times more than that when sitting still. It has a great effect on the heart, and the speed can be controlled by people. A suitable exercise program for patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Jogging can be used to talk to people while running, not feeling uncomfortable, not breathing. For those who lack exercise or poor physical fitness and poor lung function, they can start by alternating the jogging and walking methods, starting from 50 to 100 meters per day, and gradually extending according to the tolerance. The speed of running increases from 30 to 100 meters per minute when starting exercise to 100 to 120 meters per minute. If you feel tired when exercising, you can walk more and run less; if you feel comfortable after running, you can run more and less, and you should not run more than 30 minutes in one run, and the distance is within 500~800 meters. Take a deep breath when you exercise.

3. Up and down the stairs exercise

Up and down stairs are especially suitable for patients with chronic bronchial smoke and emphysema living in cities without activities. At the beginning, you can only go up and down the ladder, and then increase the number of ranks day by day. The time for going up and down the stairs should be gradually shortened, and finally strive to finish the first floor in 24 seconds.

4. lung ventilation training

Sitting on the natural plate, the palms of the hands are pressed against the bed, and the chest is raised upwards. At the same time, the chest is inhaled and pauses for a while, while the neck is bent back and the chest is closed. One breath and one call can be done 8 times or 18 times. Sitting naturally, with both palms on the lap, with the waist as the axis, turn left for 8 weeks, then turn right for 8 weeks. When rotating, inhale in the half turn to the rear and exhale in the half turn forward.

5. Do breathing exercises

Exhale first, then inhale. When inhaling, the diaphragm is lowered, the abdomen is bulged, the sputum rises when exhaling, and the abdomen is sunken. Exhale through the mouth, gather your mouth, exhale in the form of a whistle, inhale through the nose, take a deep breath, but not available. Breathing is longer than inhalation, about 2:1, and breathing rate is controlled 8 to 10 times per clock.

6. Other exercise methods

In addition to the exercise programs described above, the following actions are beneficial for the rehabilitation of chronic bronchitis.

(1) Massage the neck: Untie the collar, first heat both palms, then rub the palms in the neck until the neck is hot, 2 times a day. It can improve blood circulation in the neck and trachea.

(2) Beat the chest: stand in the fresh air, take a deep chest and inhale, use your left hand to beat the right chest, and the right hand to beat the left chest, first light and then heavy, each time to beat 30~50, 2 times a day. Improves blood circulation in the chest muscles and lungs.

(3) Knee chest movement: Kneel bends the waist down on the bed, bends the forearm on the bed, presses the chest down as much as possible, then lifts the chest to press backwards. Repeatedly lifting it down 20 to 30 times. It is good for patients to sputum and sputum, suitable for a large number of patients to exercise.

(4) Touch the wall with both hands: stand on the wall facing the wall, lift the hands to the highest point, touch the wall, touch and put it down, touch it 20~30 times repeatedly, and make the breathing muscles exercise.

(5) Suspended body: Hold the horizontal bar, the horizontal wooden stick, the door beam on the door, etc. with both hands, and let the body hang up, every 30 seconds to 1 minute, 4 to 6 times a day. Make the chest fully active and take more fresh air.