COPD: Innovative Breathing Techniques

The underlying causes of COPD are many-fold. Breathlessness can creep up on any of us, often at the same time as other health complaints that appear to be totally unconnected. The Brice Method teaches us how to listen to our body and uses simple corrective exercises to help us address the habitual imbalances that develop as a result of relative inactivity and poor health. It is an innovative approach to helping COPD patients overcome breathlessness, and the exercises challenge the status quo of standard teaching practice for COPD patients.

The Method uses a simple step-by-step approach to re-learning how to breathe naturally, with ease and without having to work hard. The exercises are simple to do and easy to learn so that they can help breathlessness/COPD sufferers develop a new, relaxed breathing pattern. They have been developed with the experience and feedback of COPD patients over more than 9 years. Results over a 12-month period show 97.7% of 302 of the author’s patients have reported an improvement in their quality of breath after just their first session. The average improvement in self-reported breathlessness is scored at over 64%. For the patients this dramatic change is usually surprising, and often astounding. Paul Brice has written this book to help answer one question that many of his COPD patients ask: ‘Why haven’t I been shown this before?’