Provision of a home exercise programme as an alternative to pulmonary rehabilitation as part of an integrated respiratory team

Purpose: Traditional Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) has been offered in Oxfordshire for the past 12 years. There has been no alternative for the 40% of referrals received annually where the patient is unable or unwilling to attend. The Integrated Respiratory Team was trialled with scope to offer something different to traditional PR. A supervised home exercise programme (HEP) could be a feasible alternative to PR to increase the numbers of patients with COPD able to self manage.
Source: Physiotherapy - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Tags: P033 Source Type: research