Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program is recommended for patients who are diagnosed with lung diseases such as COPD, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, lung cancer, and cystic fibrosis. The program is a supervised exercise and education program designed to help people regain strength, reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression, increase awareness about their lung disease, and make it easier for them to manage their disease. Our goal is to help patients to control or reduce symptoms, improve functional status, and educate patients and families about lung diseases, and self-management strategies. The program is designed with the individual patient in mind to help them exercise, educate on disease management, learn breathing retraining, and psychosocial support to help patients cope with living with a chronic illness. Studies have shown that patients with COPD who participate in pulmonary rehabilitation have decreased shortness of breath, improved activity tolerance, improved quality of life, and reduced hospitalizations.