Within the Breathebox project, a toolbox is being developed to support respiratory therapists and coaches in efficiently teaching, assessing and monitoring various breathing therapies.

The toolbox includes sensors, algorithms, software applications, educational tools (such as animation videos) and codes of good practice. With these tools, certain parameters can be measured, such as respiratory flow, respiratory volume, abdominal breathing and timing.

The breathing toolbox will be applied in different trainings and therapies.

• Respiratory physical therapy.
  This involves removing excess or sticky mucus from the lungs.
• Inhalation and nebulization therapy.
  This therapy involves inhaling medication.
• Breathing retraining.
  This involves  normalizing breathing patterns.
• Stress reduction (based on HRV biofeedback)
  In this therapy, breathing exercises are taught to reduce stress.

Within this range of therapies, the tools are tested by the therapists of our TETRA user commission along with their clients.