Functional Lungs

Functional Lungs Bringing science to breathing:
- breathing for performance
- breathing for disease optimisation
- breathing for breath control

Merry Christmas from the  team!πŸŽ„ Huge year for us with highlights including πŸ‘πŸ» Mitch presenting his poster at the World ...
24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the team!πŸŽ„ Huge year for us with highlights including
πŸ‘πŸ» Mitch presenting his poster at the World Bronchiectasis Conference
πŸ‘πŸ» Kat, our senior speech pathologist joining our team
πŸ‘πŸ» Hiuy starting a degree in research

Bring in 2026 πŸ₯³

πŸ—“οΈ We open in Hurstville 16th January 2026 and out next available in Corrimal is from 19th of Janaury 2026.

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24/12/2025
A Christmas Eve celebration - congratulations to our senior physiotherapist, Hiuy, who is a co-author for her very first...
24/12/2025

A Christmas Eve celebration - congratulations to our senior physiotherapist, Hiuy, who is a co-author for her very first article! πŸ™ŒπŸΌ πŸ₯³

Consider asking your patients, β€œwhat have you stopped doing because of shortness of breath?” ➑️➑️ 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

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

Congrats Anu! Our director, Mitch, has had the pleasure of working with Anu over the last 12 months and it was super exc...
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! πŸ† πŸ₯‡

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

Another huge win at this year’s ERS for our bronchiectasis patients ! Thanks to The Limbic for the foot notes. You can c...
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. πŸ€“



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

Breathing & Ehlers Danlos Syndrome It was my absolute pleasure to take part in the Australasian EDS echo education serie...
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 πŸŽ‰

Teaching day πŸŽ“πŸŽ“Today Mitch worked with this fabulous group of physios. The goal - to develop a group of expert cardiores...
19/09/2025

Teaching day πŸŽ“πŸŽ“

Today Mitch worked with this fabulous group of physios. The goal - to develop a group of expert cardiorespiratory physiotherapist providing evidence based services in private practices all around the country! πŸŽ‰

Thanks to all who joined us for a great day of learning.


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