Lung rehab can be tailored for people with co-morbidities

Pulmonary rehabilitation can be tweaked to safely accommodate patients with heart disease and other common co-morbidities, a leading physiotherapy academic has told the conference. The presence of co-morbidities including metabolic syndrome, muscular skeletal dysfunction, osteoporosis, chronic pain, anxiety and depression is increasingly common in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and research has shown this ...