Pulmonary Rehabilitation: An Historical Perspective

Brian W Carlin

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1242632

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Table of Contents

Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2009; 30(6): 629-635
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1242632

Pulmonary Rehabilitation: An Historical Perspective

Brian W. Carlin¹ ^, ²

¹Department of Medicine, Drexel University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
²Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a standard of care for patients with chronic lung disease. Through appropriate patient selection and assessment, exercise training, educational and psychosocial intervention, nutritional counseling, and breathing retraining, many benefits (e.g., reduction in level of dyspnea, improvement in exercise tolerance, improvement in health-related quality of life, and reduction in health care resource utilization) are gained by patients who have undergone rehabilitation. From the initial finding of improved patient’s capabilities, to times of extreme skepticism and doubt, to the state of being a standard of care, pulmonary rehabilitation has undergone many periods of transformation over the last several decades. This review expands upon previous reviews of the history behind modern-day pulmonary rehabilitation.

KEYWORDS

Pulmonary rehabilitation - history

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