Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation has become a standard of care for patients with chronic lung diseases. This document provides a systematic, evidence-based review of the pulmonary ...

Such approaches contrast with the typical outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation approach familiar to providers in the UK. We wished to test the hypothesis that pulmonary rehabilitation following a COPD ...

A six-week exercise and education programme for patients with COPD, focusing on self-management and improving quality of life ...

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Research Group, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Background: The ...

Emphysema is a chronic lung condition that affects millions of people worldwide and can make everyday activities such as ...

“Emphysema makes it hard to breathe air out of your lungs as it affects the tiny air sacs at the end of the airways where ...

Objectives The aim of this systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and quasi-experimental and retrospective studies is to investigate the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in ...

Structured exercise programs and pulmonary rehabilitation have shown important results for important outcome parameters in COPD, but the literature on the effect of the level of physical activity ...

Physicians recommend that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) quit smoking and use steroids, ...