Functional Lungs

04/05/2026

Had a great day teaching the awesome physios of the Mid North Coast last week!

Thanks to the University of Newcastle and NSW Health HETI grants for making it happen.

Exciting to see so many physios engaged and interested in all things breathing and lungs diseases! 🫁

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the team!🎄 Huge year for us with highlights including
👏🏻 Mitch presenting his poster at the World Bronchiectasis Conference
👏🏻 Kat, our senior speech pathologist joining our team
👏🏻 Hiuy starting a degree in research

Bring in 2026 🥳

🗓️ We open in Hurstville 16th January 2026 and out next available in Corrimal is from 19th of Janaury 2026.

Link in bio.

24/12/2025

24/12/2025

A Christmas Eve celebration - congratulations to our senior physiotherapist, Hiuy, who is a co-author for her very first article! 🙌🏼 🥳

Consider asking your patients, “what have you stopped doing because of shortness of breath?” ➡️➡️ You would be surprised the patient centred goals you can come up with!

Kochovska S, Chang S, Ferreira D, Brunelli V, Macdonald J, San H, et al. Diminishing activities of daily living as severity of chronic breathlessness worsens: a national, cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 2025;12:e003339. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2025-003339

19/11/2025

🫁 WORLD COPD DAY 2025 🫁

Collectively and internationally, a chronic lung condition where quality of life improves with a multidisciplinary approach. It starts with listening to the patient -

https://goldcopd.org/world-copd-day-2025/

www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/healthcare-variation/atlas-focus-report-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease

14/11/2025

Leading up to World COPD Day 19th November 2025; here’s other dimensions to consider when managing someone with COPD 🫁

Reference: A person-centred clinical approach to the multimorbid patient with COPD
Celli, Bartolome R. et al.
European Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 140, 106424
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2025.07.020

12/11/2025

Congrats Anu! Our director, Mitch, has had the pleasure of working with Anu over the last 12 months and it was super exciting to see her cross the line first!! World Champ! 🏆 🥇

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26/10/2025

Can you spot Mitch & Hiuy in the crowd? AKA just two Aussie respiratory physios happy to be learning from the best of the best ☺️☺️

What’s next on the conference horizon? ⬇️⬇️

20/10/2025

Another huge win at this year’s ERS for our bronchiectasis patients ! Thanks to The Limbic for the foot notes. You can check out the 185 guideline via the European Respiratory Journal. 🤓



JD, Haworth CS, Flume P, et al. European Respiratory
Society Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Adult Bronchiectasis. Eur Respir J
2025; in press (https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01126-2025

20/09/2025

Breathing & Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

It was my absolute pleasure to take part in the Australasian EDS echo education series this week highlighting the often overlooked role of breathing and breathing patterns in EDS.

Thanks to Nicole Frost and the ECHO team for putting on a great month of inspiring content 🎉