More patients in England with chronic obstructive pulmonary ... offer exercise programmes and education sessions to help people with COPD manage their own condition at home, and under the new ...

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation ... at rest or with exercise. Noninvasive ventilation may be helpful for selected patients with advanced COPD. Finally, pulmonary rehabilitation appears ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) has been around for almost 205 years and is one of the most prevalent non-infectious diseases in our country. It is the 2nd leading cause of death and ...

A specific program involving exercise, called pulmonary rehabilitation, is proven to help people with COPD. “I can’t recall a patient who didn’t think pulmonary rehabilitation benefited them ...

A multimodal, digital community-based intervention was feasible and decreased illness-related distress in treating patients ...

The digital Healthy at Home intervention appeared to improve quality of life for patients and decreased COPD-related distress ...

I do all my own housework, shopping, and laundry,” says Owens, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ... rehab, where a respiratory therapist shows you how to safely exercise ...

Once you’ve been doing pulmonary rehab for a while, you may be able to do the recommended exercises at home, on your own. The American Lung Association, however, advises seeing a physical ...

In this edition of Thorax, Machado and colleagues reported the findings of their mixed-methods randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the impact of a 3 week in-home PR programme ... protocol ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...