Copd Rehabilitation: The Acid Test

Pulmonary Rehabilitation for 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...

The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream

Our aim was to evaluate the use and impact of the practice walk test on enrolment, completion, and clinical functional response to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) using the 2015 UK National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pulmonary Rehabilitation audit data. Patients were assessed according to whether a baseline practice walk test was performed or not. Study outcomes included use of ...

The COPD assessment test (CAT): response to pulmonary rehabilitation. A multicentre, prospective study.

BACKGROUND The COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) assessment test (CAT) is a recently introduced, simple to use patient-completed quality of life instrument that contains eight questions covering the impact of symptoms in COPD. It is not known how the CAT score performs in the context of clinical pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes or what the minimum clinically important differe...

Concerns About Exercise Are Related to Walk Test Results in Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD

BACKGROUND Although international guidelines on pulmonary rehabilitation acknowledge that psychological factors contribute to exercise intolerance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the few empirical studies investigating this association have found inconsistent results. PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate whether negative affect and beliefs about e...