Personalised pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD

Pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD.

Introduction W is the difference in the lungs of an athlete and a clerk. Lungs of both of them are normal. Athlete has trained his lungs and body to perform rigorous exercise and able to run 20 kilometre (km) in one stretch while the clerk working in an office is hardly able run for 2 km. Even in normal lungs training and exercise result in a ten fold improvement in performance. Similarly a pat...

Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD

Response to pulmonary rehabilitation: toward personalised programmes?

Clinical practice should be based on the best scientific evidence, which does not always correspond to evidence-based medicine, involving guidelines, meta-analyses and protocols as a basis for clinical approach [1, 2]. There is no need of further randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for evidence that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves daily symptoms, exercise performance and health status in...

Pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD.

The available evidence indicates that pulmonary rehabilitation benefits patients with symptomatic COPD. The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation programs on health care utilization is promising but requires further investigation. In contrast, aerobic lower extremity training is of benefit in several areas of importance to patients with COPD. These areas include exercise endurance, perception of d...

Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD: A Case Study

The patient was submitted to a pulmonary function test with the following results after the administration of the bronchodilator: FEV1 0.92 (39.2%), FVC 1.79 (59.2%) and FEV1/FVC 51.4 (68.7%). In the 6-minute walk test (6MWT), the patient went through a total of 487.4 meters, without significant variations in heart rate and peripheral oxygen saturation. The quality of life assessment was done u...