A History of Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Back to the Future

Richard ZuWallack

doi:10.5603/ARM.27819

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Editorial

23 April 2009

A History of Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Back to the Future

Associate Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care, St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Hartford, Stany Zjednoczone Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06032, USA

Adv. Respir. Med.2009, 77(3), 298-301;https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.27819

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Pulmonary rehabilitation is defined as “an evidence-based, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive intervention for patients with chronic respiratory diseases who are symptomatic and often have decreased daily life activities. Integrated into the individualized treatment of the patient, pulmonary rehabilitation is designed to reduce symptoms, optimize functional status, increase participation, and reduce health care costs through stabilizing or reversing systemic manifestations of the disease” [...]

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