Conway Covid-19 Recovery Protocol
A purpose built program to repair, restore and regenerate your breathing system.
Enabling you to take a long deep breathe without pain or discomfort, improve sleep and help with your Covid-19 recovery. This will restore the diaphragm to its full function and allow you to get back to your normal daily activities. What to expect:
- Expertly guided recovery exercises from Chartered Physiotherapist Tommy Conway.
- Help you recover from the affects of Covid-19.
- Retrain your breathing; the system that suffered during your illness.
- Become pain free and improve sleep.
- Restore the diaphragm to its full function
Follow the 5 Activities below to start your recovery from Covid-19
Why you need this programme?
With Covid-19 you lose your ability to expand, this loss of expansion is a direct result from not been able to take a long, big, deep, breath in. The result is that 5 key spaces of the ribcage close in, causing:
1: Heaviness at chest and ribcage
2: Pain and stiffness when taking a breath in
3: Increased fatigue and tiredness
4: Unable to lie on your side at night.
Believe me when I say this, this will not improve on it's own, if you do not open the 5 key spaces you will always be at a deficit.
What Happens with Covid-19?
What Happens with Covid-19?
You lose your ability to expand, this loss of expansion equals a loss of lung filling, a loss of air in. Due to the nature of the disease, shortness of breath or a cough limiting a full inhale, the lungs are unable to fully fill. This results in two important changes to the body:
1: The diaphragm muscle is underutilized as it is unable to fully lengthen and shorten.
2: The “Cage” begins to close in on the 5 key spaces.
These changes will close the 5 key spaces that allow you to take a big, deep, long breath in. The spaces that primarily close are at the chest, sides of the rib cage and in between the shoulder blades, but there are more. This closing of spaces will not only limit your breathing but cause a tightness, soreness and heaviness. You do not have to live like this, you can make a change.
Your 5 Activities are below:
Activity 1
Open the space between the shoulder blades
This exercise Is designed to open the space between your shoulder blades
Take 5 deep breaths and repeat x 3 sets per side
4 second Inhale
4 second exhale
Activity 2
Open the space at the lower ribcage
This exercise Is designed to open the space at your lower ribcage
Take 5 deep breaths and repeat x 3 sets per side
4 second Inhale
4 second exhale
Activity 3
Open the space at the side of the ribcage.
This exercise Is designed to open the space along the side of your body
Take 5 deep breaths and repeat x 3 sets per side
4 second Inhale
4 second exhale
Activity 4
Open the space at the front of the chest
This exercise Is designed to open the space at the front of the chest
Take 5 deep breaths and repeat x 3 sets per side
4 second Inhale
4 second exhale
Activity 5
Open the space between each Rib.
This exercise Is designed to open the space between the ribcage
Take 5 deep breaths and repeat x 3 sets per side
4 second Inhale
4 second exhale
It has become clear that many people have difficulty sleeping post Covid.
Here are 2 videos to help you improve your sleep.
Finally... The Most Important Position
Prone lying is very beneficial to open up the space between your shoulder blades.
Try and stay in this position for 20 - 30 minutes.
I hope this helps you.
Please email me personally if you have any further questions or issues.
