Two Exercises To Help You Increase Lung Capacity

Brut India

Dr. Arvind Kumar, chest surgeon at Medanta Hospital, says lung involvement mostly shows up around the eighth day in Covid-19 patients. So he shared two exercises that can increase lung capacity and also help warn patients if their lungs are getting affected.

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00:00How long can you hold your breath?

00:05How long can you hold your breath?

00:07We call it breath holding time.

00:09When you hold your breath for the first time,

00:11you can hold it for 8 seconds, 7 seconds, 10 seconds.

00:14I request you to do group activity

00:17and increase it by 2-3 seconds every day.

00:21Suppose you did it for the first time for 8 seconds.

00:23You said, I will sleep in the evening

00:25when I will do it for 11 seconds.

00:27The next day you did it for 3 seconds more.

00:29The next day you did it for 3 seconds more.

00:31The patient who has increased his breath holding time by 25 seconds

00:35is in a very safe zone.

00:37Secondly, if your breath holding time is increasing little by little every day,

00:41then this is a very good message coming from your lungs

00:45that everything is fine.

00:47Everything is fine.

00:48Everything is fine.

00:49Because if anything goes wrong inside,

00:51then this time will not increase.

00:53It will start decreasing as it increases.

00:55So you sit.

00:57Shoulders should be completely straight.

00:59Chest should be straight.

01:00Keep your hands on your thighs.

01:02And breathe through your mouth.

01:03Because many people sometimes have obstruction in the nose.

01:06So breathe very smoothly through the mouth.

01:08Now see, I took out my breath.

01:10Opened my mouth.

01:13Breathe in.

01:15Breathe out.

01:17Breathe in.

01:19Breathe out.

01:21Breathe in.

01:23Breathe out.

01:25Do this once or twice in an hour.

01:29But every subsequent hour,

01:31increase 1-8 seconds compared to the last hour.

01:36Oxygen

01:37Oxygen

01:39In that, we first put oxygen,

01:41pulse oximeter,

01:43see our oxygen,

01:45and then we walk for 6 minutes.

01:47And then see the oxygen again.

01:49So at rest, it is possible that our oxygen is normal.

01:52But when we walk,

01:53after that our oxygen can drop.

01:56So this is also a very early sign

02:00that lung involvement

02:02before oxygen falls

02:06tells us that our lungs are going to be involved.

02:10That is, you did a 6-minute walk test.

02:12Before your walk,

02:14after your walk,

02:15both the saturation is above 95.

02:17It is normal.

02:18If lung involvement starts,

02:20then your first sign will be

02:22that the value after your exercise

02:25will fall by 3-4%.

02:27When oxygen is low,

02:30excessive cough occurs,

02:32or there is severe pain in the chest,

02:35or post-exercise,

02:37your oxygen falls.

02:39In these four situations,

02:40you have to get a CT scan done.

02:42Otherwise,

02:43you should use these two tests,

02:45these two methods,

02:47and keep yourself safe at home

02:50and recover as soon as possible from Corona.

02:57For more information, visit www.FEMA.gov

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