Rehabilitation for Respiratory Diseases

Towards health benefits in chronic respiratory diseases: pulmonary rehabilitation.

In 1895, Dr Charles Denison, a Professor of Diseases of the Chest and of Climatology at the University of Denver, was the first to state that daily walks, hygiene and dietary are important to acquire mental relaxation, happiness and prosperity in ‘‘pulmonary invalids’’ [1]. Notwithstanding, it took another 74 years before PETTY et al. [2] described a ‘‘comprehensive care programme’’ for individ...

Nanomedicine for Respiratory Diseases

Regenerative Medicine for Respiratory Diseases

Tissue engineering is an important technology for supporting regenerative medicine, producing tissues in incubation bottles in a tissue culture laboratory. In addition, a newer approach to regeneration of tissues in the human body, called in situ tissue engineering, has been devised in Japan and is attracting attention as a new means of bringing out our body’s potential. New therapeutic methods...

Rehabilitation in rheumatic diseases.

"Someone to look after the whole patient, not just the part that hurts" was how one consultant summarised the medical needs of patients with rheumatic disease. Another described rehabilitation as pulling together the relevant information and pointing the patient in the right direction-for much is known and much is available. Yet both patients and general practitioners tend to have low expectati...

Designing a managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a model of managed care for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system in 1399. Methods: To achieve this goal, first the effective factors and indicators affecting the managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases are identified based on content analysis technique and then these factors...