Pulmonary rehabilitation has emerged as a standard of care for patients with chronic lung disease, based on a growing body of scientific evidence. Over recent decades, several organizations have championed pulmonary rehabilitation and developed comprehensive statements, practice guidelines, and evidence-based guidelines. Documenting the scientific evidence underlying clinical practice has been ...

[Purpose] This study aimed to clarify differences in understanding and subjective effects of home-visit rehabilitation between user families and rehabilitation providers. [Subjects] The subjects were home-visit rehabilitation providers and user families. [Methods] Home-visit rehabilitation providers and user families completed a self-administered questionnaire regarding the content and subjecti...

Pulmonary rehabilitation comprises a variety of interventions grouped into three main categories: exercise training, education, and psychological support. Typically, patients participate in a programme of exercise rehabilitation 2-3 times a week for 6-12 weeks, at the same time being encouraged to incorporate breathing and stretching exercises as part of their daily routine. The physiological r...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programs have been shown to increase functional exercise capacity and quality of life in COPD patients. However, following the completion of pulmonary rehabilitation the benefits begin to decline unless the program is of longer duration or ongoing maintenance exercise is followed. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine if supervised, weekly, hospita...

Tooth loss, especially in the anterior region, generates a loss of local bone structure affecting aesthetics and function for patient viable tactic is use deproteinized bovine block graft. This reconstructive method allows possibility partial or total reconstruction maxilla mandible safe predictable way, where it seeks maintenance three-dimensional structure, viability neoformation favoring imp...

objectives: the most common problem that delinquent children and juveniles deal with at every moment is the lack of sufficient control over their aggression. accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of mental rehabilitation group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on decreasing aggression in juvenile delinquents. methods: this study employed a quasi-experimental ...

AIMS First, to examine whether autonomy-supportive and self-efficacy-enhancing individual lifestyle counselling was associated with improved maintenance of heart-protective diets and smoking cessation compared with group-based counselling. Second, to investigate to what extent reported motivation was associated with maintenance of dietary changes. METHODS A randomized controlled trial and lon...

CONTEXT Coaches, athletic trainers (ATs), strength and conditioning specialists (SCSs), and registered dietitians are common nutrition resources for athletes, but coaches, ATs, and SCSs might offer only limited nutrition information. Little research exists about sports nutrition knowledge and current available resources for nutrition information for athletes, coaches, ATs, and SCSs. OBJECTIVE...

Abstract Asphalt pavements have been extensively used in highway system. However, a great number of asphalt suffer from early distresses after servicing for about 2–3 years, which leads to frequent rehabilitation and increased maintenance cost. To understand the damage propagation principle correlated measure, progress pavement distress rehabilitation, structural performance, assessment has exp...