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Students from the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences present a lecture entitled (Your Lung is Your Health)

An awareness lecture about lung health  (your lung is your health) was presented by level 6 Doctor of physical therapy students under supervision of Dr.Shereen Afifi from Health and Rehabilitation college, in coordination with the south guidance office in Riyadh.

This lecture comes in line with the other awareness initiatives offered by the college about Covid-19 in addition to other most common chronic lung diseases; the main aim was to spread the awareness among the Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman university staff  and students regarding how is it important to maintain your lungs health as it one of the vital human organs and cannot neglects the life depends on it. ​

The role of the physical therapy specialist in treating and preventing a various disease affects the human body was explained through the lecture, the physical therapy specialist offers a various preventive exercise to promote the affected part health condition or to maintain its function. Moreover, the students offer multiple guidance and insist on the importance to follow it to maintain lung health, such as smoking abstention, keep exercising, not being exposed to pollutants in the air such as cleaning substances and smoke, not being infected. Also, the students explain how the nutrition system promote lung health; increases the fruits, vegetables, and proteins ratio in the meal due to the fact they carry a lot of benefits that can strengthen the human body.