Pulmonary rehabilitation

Activities for Supporting Work Ability of Ageing Workers

Published in Joanna Bugajska, Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska, Tomasz Kostka, Individual and Occupational Determinants, 2020

Joanna Kostka, Tomasz Kostka

Pulmonary rehabilitation includes exercise, education and lifestyle modification programs. Physical training usually includes endurance and resistance exercises. Exercise training programme seems effective in improving exercise capacity and HRQOL, which is confirmed by short-term and 6-month follow-up studies (Dale et al. 2015).

Usability and Effectiveness Evaluation of a Game-Based Biofeedback System to Strengthen Respiratory Muscles

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Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2022

N. Garcia-Hernandez, I. Muñoz-Pepi, F. Villafranca-Martinez, V. Parra-Vega

Evidence shows a qualitative acceptance of the system and a quantitative betterment after 3 weeks of inspiratory training. These findings suggest that the developed system can be an essential complementary tool in pulmonary rehabilitation programs since it targets improving respiratory muscle strength through testing and training, and patients can use it at home. Furthermore, the proposed system can be a valuable tool for many populations (patients with dyspnea symptoms, reduced exercise tolerance, etc.), especially useful in the coming post-COVID-19 period (Hull et al., 2020). More importantly, the proposed system can be a valuable tool to investigate effective protocols that improve respiratory muscle strength or other pulmonary functions since few controlled clinical trials have examined the addition of inspiratory muscle training in rehabilitation programs for patients after viral pneumonia due to COVID-19.

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