Pulmonary Rehabilitation helps you to improve your quality of life. Although it can’t cure your lung disease, it can help improve your breathing, allowing you to increase your daily function. PR also helps you:
- Improve your energy
- Build your endurance and strength
- Increase your ability to exercise
- Control your symptoms
- Manage your stress, anxiety and depression
Pulmonary Rehabilitation includes exercise classes and education about your lung disease or condition. PR may help you participate in activities with less shortness of breath and teach you how to “live” better with your lung condition. Additional education helps you:
- Reduce and control breathing difficulties and other symptoms
- Learn more about your disease, treatment options, and chronic disease coping strategies
- Learn to manage your disease by understanding and using your medications properly
- Maintain healthy behaviors such as smoking cessation, good nutrition, and exercise
Educational Programs
Education classes focus on COPD as well as other chronic lung diseases to provide you with information about:
- Medications, including drug action, side effects, using an inhaler, and self-care techniques
- Understanding and using oxygen therapy
- Diet, nutrition and weight management
- Breathing retraining
- Importance of exercise
- Strategies for managing breathing problems
- Symptom assessment and knowledge about when to seek medical treatment
Monitored and Supervised Exercise
A physical activity plan is tailored to your needs. Exercise will help improve your endurance and muscle strength, so you’re better able to carry out daily activities.
Psychosocial Support
People who have chronic lung disease are more prone to depression, anxiety, and other emotional difficulties. Our program addresses these issues and offers support resources, if needed.
