Maintaining the benefits following pulmonary rehabilitation: Achievable or not?

Maintaining benefits following pulmonary rehabilitation: a randomised controlled trial.

The aim of this study was to determine if weekly, supervised, outpatient-based exercise plus unsupervised home exercise following an 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme would maintain functional exercise capacity and quality of life at 12 months better than standard care of unsupervised home exercise training. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subjects completed an 8-week pulmo...

Tele-rehabilitation the benefits and drawbacks

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted negatively on our society and resulted in numerous deaths. It had an effect on every facet of health-care delivery. Rules, regulations, and payment policies were changed to allow extensive use of telecommunications technology in lieu of in-person clinical visits to protect health care personnel and patients throughout the country from the risk of disease trans...

Benefits of a multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation program.

Benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

BACKGROUND Information on the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is growing, but PR's effects on certain important outcomes is lacking. METHODS We conducted a pilot study of PR in IPF and analyzed changes in functional capacity, fatigue, anxiety, depression, sleep, and health status from baseline to after completion of a standard, 6-...

Pulmonary rehabilitation: art or science?

In recent years growing attention has been paid to rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive lung disease and other respiratory cripples. Issue number 6 of the European Respiratory Review is devoted to this topic [1], and in the present issue of the Respiratory Journal, recommendations for the use of Pulmonary Rehabilitation are published [2). The latter publication is from the Europe...