{"id":22,"date":"2018-05-07T07:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-05-07T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:51:54","slug":"factors-affecting-breathlessness-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/factors-affecting-breathlessness\/factors-affecting-breathlessness-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors Affecting Breathlessness: Body position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we will start a small series of tips to manage shortness of breath for lung awareness month.<br \/>\nFactors affecting breathlessness can be used to limit exacerbations and promote healthy choices.<br \/>\ni. Body position- shortness of breath can catch you unawares at times in the middle of activity. It is important to use the environment around you to sit or lean forward, reducing energy and oxygen needs and opening the chest for expansion, relaxing the shoulders and focusing on relaxing the breath out.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posture-2small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posture-2small-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posture-2small-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Posture-2small.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we will start a small series of tips to manage shortness of breath for lung awareness month. Factors affecting breathlessness can be used to limit exacerbations and promote healthy choices. i. Body position- shortness of breath can catch you unawares at times in the middle of activity. It is important to use the environment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/factors-affecting-breathlessness\/factors-affecting-breathlessness-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Factors Affecting Breathlessness: Body position<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5,8,6],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factors-affecting-breathlessness","tag-body-position","tag-breathing","tag-exacerbation","tag-lung-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}