The COPD Success Full Course

About Course

It’s like doing the Pulmonary Rehab education piece, in the comfort of your home- or on the go. It’s best to start at Lesson 1 and build your knowledge, but if you see a must-know-now topic, go ahead and jump to it. It’ s your course!

Course Content

Welcome to COPD Success
I am dedicated to your success!

Welcome! Start here to start breathing easier

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Lesson 1: Special Considerations if you are on oxygen, have CHF or Diabetes
Yes, you can participate if you have CHF, diabetes, or are on oxygen. Ensure your Doctor has cleared you to do mild exercise first!

Lesson 2: Getting started. Assessing your current baseline.
We can only track progress if we have a starting point.

Lesson 3: Pursed Lip breathing
How to breathe correctly with COPD. Slow it down, get the most from your breath.

Lesson 4: Exercising SAFELY
Using the Borg scale to ensure you are working at a good pace for YOU

Lesson 5: How the Heart and the Lungs work together
Understand how your heart and lungs work together and how to breathe correctly to get the most oxygen possible and exhale excess carbon dioxide out of the lungs.

Lesson 6: Getting the most from your Activities
Breathe through activity using breathing techniques.

Lesson 7: Oxygen safey
All things oxygen: safety, portable 02 options, travelling with oxygen, safe oxygen levels, protect your heart- ensure you have enough oxygen. If you are NOT on oxygen, please watch this anyway for the sake of your fellow COPD/Asthma/IPF friends.

Lesson 8: Using spacers with inhalers
How to use a spacer, how to use an mdi without a spacer, the importance of spacers. Controllers and reliever medications, inhaled steroids, technique and timing.

Lesson 9: What is COPD?
What is COPD exactly? Emphysema, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis. COPD is manageable. Exercise, hydration, keeping your numbers within safe limits to keep all systems GO. Surgical options.

Lesson 10: You are NOT your diagnosis!
Learning to live with COPD and other chronic lung diseases. Getting support- Support groups, Better Breathers Clubs, Forums. Thinking and Feeling exercises, and the "I" exercise. All images are copyrighted, Blue Man Group and Penguins of Madagascar, with permission

Lesson 11: Nutrition for COPD patients ( And Asthma and ILD too)
Get help balancing your diet. Choose healthy foods, not plastic fake food! Options to get more good stuff into your diet.

Lesson 12A: Advance Directives, Part One
Part 1 (of 2) of Beginners Guide to Advance Directives. Living Will vs. DPAHC vs. Advance Directive.

Lesson 12B: Advance Directives, continued
How your choices or lack of healthcare choices can impact your next hospital stay

Lesson 13: Medication interactions
Herbs, vitamins, supplements, inhalers, other drug interactions with COPD medications.

Lesson 14: Staying Well
When should you call the doctor, vs. when should you go to the emergency room?

Lesson 15A: Understanding your PFT test results
Test results part one- pulmonary function testing

Lesson 15 B: More test results
Explanation of ABGs and Six minute walking tests.

Lesson 16: Action Plans for COPD and Asthma
COPD and Asthma Action plans- what to do to maintain good breathing, and what to do when your breathing gets short.

Lesson 17: Going Solo: Setting up a home gym
How to set up a home gym, and find a good local gym to exercise.

Lesson 18A: Stretching and Warming up before activity and movement
Easy stretches to warm up before starting any exercise. You MUST be cleared by your medical team to do these exercises!

Lesson 18B: Breathing Correctly through the Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s)
Bathing, dressing, cooking, cleaning, meal prep......... these are all essential ADL's to live well.

Lesson 19: Don’t Stress!
Identify what stresses you and compromises your breathing. Learn how to do away with these things .You may be surprised to learn about things that stress you without you realizing it.

Lesson 20: It’s not really Woo-woo
Shifting to a positive mindset. Take control of your thoughts and replace the old scripts with new ones. You have come a long way!

Lesson 21: The Interstitial Lung Diseases : ILD, IPF, Pulmonary Fibrosis
The group of lung diseases known as Pulmonary Fibrosis, PVOD (Pulmonary Veno-occlusive disease), Interstitial lung disease, and related disorders such as Pulmonary Hypertension. Causes and treatments. Keep your oxygen levels up!

Lesson 22: Finding YOUR Stride
Arranging items in your home and office to fit your height and allow for best posture. Doing the most demanding tasks at the time of day that you have the most energy.

Lesson 23: Graduation Day!
CONGRATS! You have finished the COPD Success program! Please tell your Doctor and others about www.COPDSuccess.com and all the progress you made!

Bonus Video: The Stop Smoking Arsenal
Cigarettes, Vaping, Marijuana -- How to quit for good!

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Course Content

Welcome to COPD Success I am dedicated to your success!

Welcome! Start here to start breathing easier

Lesson 1: Special Considerations if you are on oxygen, have CHF or Diabetes Yes, you can participate if you have CHF, diabetes, or are on oxygen. Ensure your Doctor has cleared you to do mild exercise first!

Special Considerations with Diabetes, CHF, or if you use Oxygen

Lesson 2: Getting started. Assessing your current baseline. We can only track progress if we have a starting point.

The CAT test, MMRC, and other baseline tests

Lesson 3: Pursed Lip breathing How to breathe correctly with COPD. Slow it down, get the most from your breath.

Pursed Lip and Diaphragmatic Breathing

Lesson 4: Exercising SAFELY Using the Borg scale to ensure you are working at a good pace for YOU

Using the Borg scale with activity

Lesson 5: How the Heart and the Lungs work together Understand how your heart and lungs work together and how to breathe correctly to get the most oxygen possible and exhale excess carbon dioxide out of the lungs.

Your Heart and Lungs: Together Forever

Lesson 6: Getting the most from your Activities Breathe through activity using breathing techniques.

Exercising and doing activities safely and effectively

Lesson 7: Oxygen safey All things oxygen: safety, portable 02 options, travelling with oxygen, safe oxygen levels, protect your heart- ensure you have enough oxygen. If you are NOT on oxygen, please watch this anyway for the sake of your fellow COPD/Asthma/IPF friends.

Oxygen Safety

Lesson 8: Using spacers with inhalers How to use a spacer, how to use an mdi without a spacer, the importance of spacers. Controllers and reliever medications, inhaled steroids, technique and timing.

MDI’s, disk inhalers, and Respimat

Lesson 9: What is COPD? What is COPD exactly? Emphysema, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis. COPD is manageable. Exercise, hydration, keeping your numbers within safe limits to keep all systems GO. Surgical options.

COPD- What is it?

You are not your Diagnosis!

Lesson 11: Nutrition for COPD patients ( And Asthma and ILD too) Get help balancing your diet. Choose healthy foods, not plastic fake food! Options to get more good stuff into your diet.

Nutrition for COPD Asthma and ILD patients

Lesson 12A: Advance Directives, Part One Part 1 (of 2) of Beginners Guide to Advance Directives. Living Will vs. DPAHC vs. Advance Directive.

Advance Directives Part 1

Lesson 12B: Advance Directives, continued How your choices or lack of healthcare choices can impact your next hospital stay

Advance Directives, Part 2

Lesson 13: Medication interactions Herbs, vitamins, supplements, inhalers, other drug interactions with COPD medications.

Medication and supplement interactions

Lesson 14: Staying Well When should you call the doctor, vs. when should you go to the emergency room?

Staying Well

Lesson 15A: Understanding your PFT test results Test results part one- pulmonary function testing

Test results part one- What do your pulmonary function testing numbers mean?

Lesson 15 B: More test results Explanation of ABGs and Six minute walking tests.

More test results: Blood Gas and Six minute walk test

More test results: Blood Gas and Six minute walk test

Lesson 16: Action Plans for COPD and Asthma COPD and Asthma Action plans- what to do to maintain good breathing, and what to do when your breathing gets short.

Action Plans for Asthma and COPD

Lesson 17: Going Solo: Setting up a home gym How to set up a home gym, and find a good local gym to exercise.

Lesson 17: Going Solo

Lesson 18A: Stretching and Warming up before activity and movement Easy stretches to warm up before starting any exercise. You MUST be cleared by your medical team to do these exercises!

Stretches and Warmups

Lesson 18B: Breathing Correctly through the Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) Bathing, dressing, cooking, cleaning, meal prep......... these are all essential ADL's to live well.

Breathing Correctly through the ADL’s

Lesson 19: Don’t Stress! Identify what stresses you and compromises your breathing. Learn how to do away with these things .You may be surprised to learn about things that stress you without you realizing it.

Stressing and De-Stressing

Lesson 20: It’s not really Woo-woo Shifting to a positive mindset. Take control of your thoughts and replace the old scripts with new ones. You have come a long way!

The Power of Thinking Positive

ILD and IPF – There is a LOT that you can do!

Lesson 22: Finding YOUR Stride Arranging items in your home and office to fit your height and allow for best posture. Doing the most demanding tasks at the time of day that you have the most energy.

Finding Your Stride – Utilize your body’ rhythms to make it easier

Lesson 23: Graduation Day! CONGRATS! You have finished the COPD Success program! Please tell your Doctor and others about www.COPDSuccess.com and all the progress you made!

Graduation!

Bonus Video: The Stop Smoking Arsenal Cigarettes, Vaping, Marijuana -- How to quit for good!