REFERENCE · RECOVERY TECHNIQUES
Functional Cough and Upper-Airway Symptoms: Detailed Recovery Pages
Ten original entries become ten detailed pages, with no added interventions or omitted entries. The folder overview is an additional navigation document. [See the history mapping](../../../docs/project/recovery-technique-history-audit.md#functional-cough-and-upper-airway-symptoms).
Recovery Techniques › Symptom overview
Start with assessment and one approach that fits your care plan. You do not need to practise everything. Cough can protect the airway; these pages are not instructions to suppress choking, productive cough or unexplained breathing difficulty. Functional cough, tic cough, somatic cough syndrome and inducible laryngeal obstruction require distinct assessment. ILO is not automatically FND.
- Noticing the Earliest Cough Urge
- Using a Sip and Swallow When It Is Safe
- Choosing One Comfortable Cough Substitute
- Finding a Less Effortful Breathing Pattern
- Coordinating Gentle Lower-Rib Breathing
- Easing Repeated Throat Clearing
- Returning to Activities With Graded Trigger Practice
- Making Daily Life Kinder to Your Throat
- Working With Attention, Worry and the Cough Urge
- Keeping Other Causes and Conditions in the Care Plan
Each page includes guidance for the person, supporters and clinicians, with its own sources and safety limits. Evidence is chiefly professional consensus for FND-related care; broader cough-programme research does not prove each component separately. No new community quotations or community-only techniques have been added.
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