A range of neurological conditions can affect the way you breathe. Changes to muscle strength, chest wall movement, or throat function can make it harder to clear mucus, maintain lung capacity, and keep the airways healthy — which in turn can affect general wellbeing and day-to-day function.

At NeuroLab Physiotherapy, respiratory health is monitored as part of your broader neurological care. This includes assessing cough strength, breathing patterns, and lung capacity over time, so any changes can be identified early and addressed proactively.

Our approach is evidence-based and directed toward what matters most to you. Supporting airway clearance, respiratory function, and day-to-day breathing, alongside your wider rehabilitation goals, with strategies tailored to your individual needs.

Assessment of breathing pattern, chest expansion, cough effectiveness, secretion burden, positioning, functional tolerance and current respiratory equipment.

Techniques or equipment to support a larger breath and improve cough effectiveness where clinically indicated.

Assessment and graded training of the respiratoy muscles where appropriate, medically safe and relevant to your goals.

Positioning to support ventilation and comfort, together with implementation of prescribed nebuliser, humidification or oral-secretion management plans.

Individualised positioning, breathing techniques, manual chest techniques and appropriate airway-clearance devices to assist secretion movement.

Manually assisted cough and cough-assist assessment, set-up and training where appropriate to improve secretion clearance.

Support with secretion-management routines, suction equipment and carer training where clinically appropriate and within the treating medical plan.

Education for clients, families and support teams, including equipment set-up, routine development, funding documentation and collaboration with the broader healthcare team.

Neurolab provides community-based respiratory physiotherapy for adults living with neurological conditions, neuromuscular weakness and complex disability that affect breathing, cough or secretion clearance.

• Motor neurone disease
• Muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular conditions
• Spinal muscular atrophy
• Spinal cord injury
• Multiple sclerosis

• Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism
• Acquired brain injury and stroke
• Cerebral palsy
• Progressive neurological conditions
• Complex disability with impaired cough or secretion clearance