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Cardiovascular and respiratory physiotherapy videos

Educational videos

On my channel I explain, in plain language, how heart and lung rehabilitation works: what happens in a session, why your heart rate and oxygen saturation are measured while you train, and what you can expect week by week. The videos are in Spanish.

They are aimed at patients and families, not professionals. If you’ve just been discharged after a heart attack or surgery, if you live with COPD, or if you look after someone who has lost strength and independence, you’ll find answers here to the questions I get asked most in the clinic.

What you'll find in these videos

Cardiac rehabilitation

What a cardiac rehabilitation programme is and why prescribed exercise is a treatment, not a risk. How the intensity at which you can safely train is decided, what is monitored while you do it and which signs should make you stop.

Respiratory physiotherapy

Techniques to mobilise and clear secretions, exercises to regain lung capacity and how to manage breathlessness without ceasing to move, which is exactly what tends to happen: people stop walking for fear of struggling to breathe, and by stopping walking they get worse.

Strength and independence in older adults

Why losing strength isn’t simply a matter of age, what you can train at home with minimal equipment and how to progress without injury. Getting up from a chair without help is as legitimate a treatment goal as any other.

Pain and injuries

What to do in the first hours after an injury, when it’s good to move and when to wait, and why prolonged rest is almost never the answer.

Questions I'm often asked

Can I exercise if I have a heart condition?

In most cases yes, and it’s advisable. The key is the dose: what intensity, for how long and with what monitoring. That is exactly what is adjusted in an initial assessment, and what I talk about in several of the videos.

Do the videos replace a session?

No. They help you understand what is going on and what can be done, but no video can assess your case, measure how your body responds to effort or correct how you perform an exercise.

Do I need equipment or a gym?

For a good part of what I show, no. A chair, some weight and room to walk are enough to start. At the gym we work with more load and more monitoring, but progress starts where you are.

How often do you post?

There’s no fixed schedule. I post when a question comes up often enough in the clinic to deserve a proper explanation.

Questions about your case?