UK King’s Daughters announced the certification of its pulmonary rehabilitation program by the American Association of ...

A 12-month, home-based exercise program improved exercise capacity and patient-perceived fitness in adults with COPD but did not affect dyspnea, according to new data published in Chest. “Home-based ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Water walking/jogging, arm circles and leg and knee lifts are examples of water-based exercises. Patients with ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, you probably have shortness of breath during physical exertion. Regular exercise may seem intimidating, but it’s actually ...

If you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), exercise helps your lungs get stronger and work better, according to the American Lung Association (ALA). But can it reverse the effects of ...

Researchers discovered that exercise helps to alleviate various symptoms for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, and lung ...

For those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), regular physical activity can bring a host of benefits. Research links exercise to lower risk of COPD-related hospital admission as well as ...

Inclusion required a diagnosis of COPD [10] based on standardized spirometry, [11] clinical stability, smoking abstinence, and willingness to enroll in an inpatient or outpatient pulmonary ...

In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer — a thing a doctor normally asks asthma sufferers to blow hard into — to measure the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. It ...