Senior Physiotherapist | Respiratory 🩺🫁| ICPCD | QMU Edinburgh graduate 👩🏼🎓
Galway, Ireland
Joined September 2016
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Catherine Speirs retweeted
Ballinasloe COPD Support Group details below
#WorldCOPDDay @eimeargriffno1 @ohara_aoife @physiocath @EmmaBurkeCNS
Celebrating #WorldCOPDDay today. 5 COPD Support Groups in @CHO2west Weekly exercise classes in all groups to support people living with COPD to manage breathlessness, improve fitness levels and improve quality of life. Exercise also improves mental wellbeing. Details to follow..
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Celebrating #WorldCOPDDay today. 5 COPD Support Groups in @CHO2west Weekly exercise classes in all groups to support people living with COPD to manage breathlessness, improve fitness levels and improve quality of life. Exercise also improves mental wellbeing. Details to follow..
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Lots of information & goodies at the @COPDSupportIre stand... support World COPD day 15th Nov. Register for the step challenge at copd.ie @irishthor
Catherine Speirs retweeted
@CPRC_ISCP are delighted to support @COPDSupportIre in their Word COPD Step Challenge! Great networking @irishthoracicS conference 2023!
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Excited to Launch our MECC Register in East Galway/Ballinasloe Chronic Disease Hub. #makingeverycontactcount @CHO2west @MakingMeccWork @NCPRespiratory1 Well done team ❤️🫁💉#integratedcare
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Do you deliver physical activity or exercise programmes for people with chronic lung disease living in the Republic of Ireland?
Please consider taking part in a survey about the use of behaviour change techniques in promoting physical activity?
Click 👇
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Catherine Speirs retweeted
Community Healthcare West Recruitment have launched a campaign for the post of: Physiotherapist, Senior (Respiratory). Campaign Ref:CHW130-SPRIC-2023.Closing date: Tuesday 14th November 2023 at 12 noon.
Advert Link: rezoomo.com/job/56815/
Catherine Speirs retweeted
We were proud to support @sandragreen91 with funding to design the Inhaler Toolkit for Green Prescribers - Spark Seed Project!💚 ide.ie/resources/inhaler-too…
Great example of frontline innovative activity from the powerhouse group @IrishDocsEnv💪
@irishthoracicS @ICGPnews @NDTP_HSE
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Afternoon session at #ISCPConf23
This Friday!
Respiratory Integrated Care
Registration & full programme
iscp.ie/annual-conference/Re…
@ICPOPIreland @physiocath @OrlaT6 @eve_stanley1 @WeHSCPs #respiratory #pulmonaryrehab
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Good reminder on the back of spirometry re accreditation last week @physiocath @EmmaBurkeCNS
Telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the likelihood of them quitting smoking bmj.com/content/336/7644/598… #RespEd @BTSrespiratory @bmj_latest
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Educate your patients about the importance of muscle strength 🦵
Prevent #sarcopenia by building muscle in youth and maintaining it in middle age to reduce muscle loss as we age.
BUT it is never too late to benefit from improving muscle strength.
Here's why👇
🧵Thread
ALT https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30312372/
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Today it is #WorldLungCancerDay2023 🫁
Research shows that #Physiotherapy helps #Prevent #LungCancer & reduce its mortality through:
🚩 Early detection
💪 Promoting an active & healthy lifestyle
🫁 Enhancing lung function
📉 Reducing complications
📈 Improving #QualityOfLife
Catherine Speirs retweeted
People with #asthma world-wide are at risk from too-rapid implementation of F-gas propellant restrictions. Time is needed for licensing, manufacture and access to new pMDI inhalers with low Global Warming Potential (GWP). thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Join Croí Connects weekly online chat!🗣
Donough Mc Brearty, Senior Cardiology Physiotherapist, Ballinasloe Ambulatory Care Hub will talk about 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞🏃🏻♀️❤
🗓Thurs, July 13th
⏰11am via Zoom
👉 croi.ie/croiconnects
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Oranmore/Maree are through to face Sarsfields in the @GalwayCamogie96 senior final, after edging out a brave effort from Ardrahan by a single point.
@OMCamogieClub 1-10
@ArdrahanCamogie 1-9.
Catherine Speirs retweeted
🇱🇻🇱🇻Our four All-Ireland champions Roisin, Ailish, Niamh and Rachael pictured with the O’Duffy cup and some Oranmore/Maree supporters 🏆🥇 well done girls on such an incredible achievement 👏👏
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Oranmore Maree Camogie Darkness into Light gofundme.com/f/oranmore-mare…
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Staff from across #UHG ensuring continuity of patient care is still foremost during #COVID19Pandemic.
#StayAtHomeSaveLives #InThisTogether
Catherine Speirs retweeted
Fantastic image of a respiratory physiotherapist on the cover of today’s @IrishTimes. Recognition of their essential role on the frontline @CPRC_ISCP
