Jump to full article: (Dundee) Evening Telegraph (uk), 2002-05-10
Author: Marjory Inglis, medical reporter.
Intro: Alf, and scores of people like him, are getting their breath back thanks to a recently introduced pulmonary rehabilitation programme - exercise specifically designed for patients with chronic lung disease.
The rehabilitation classes have been so successful that a new programme of maintenance classes is about to start in two city leisure centres, so patients continue to feel supported and motivated and there is less risk of back sliding.
In recent months practice nurses in surgeries and health centres across Dundee have identified patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who would benefit from better management of the serious lung condition usually caused by smoking.
The patients have been sent to King's Cross Hospital where physiotherapists in the community therapies department have established a special eight-week long exercise programme.
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