REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 114 (6), 1145-1165
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1976.114.6.1145
Abstract
This review article encompasses all aspects of patient rehabilitation including: physical therapy, low flow O2 therapy, treatment of heart failure, drug control, psychosocial management and vocational rehabilitation. Throughout the article, the importance of combatting invalidism, increased exercise tolerance and psychological adaptation to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is stressed.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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