Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Time for an Upgrade

Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Time for an Upgrade

Raquel Sebio-García

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a notoriously known but highly underused intervention aimed to restore or improve functional capacity, symptom management and health-related quality of life among patients with chronic respiratory diseases. Since early 1980s, pulmonary rehabilitation has been acknowledged as a comprehensive intervention with hundreds of studies being performed over the past thirty years demonstrating its benefits on multiple outcomes; nevertheless, there are still multiple unresolved challenges, and new ones are currently emerging, with the COVID-19 outbreak now in the spotlight. In this editorial, these issues are summarized and discussed, while presenting some of the latest findings in research and clinical practice, with the ultimate goal of raising awareness of the future of pulmonary rehabilitation in the post COVID-19 era.

2020

covid-19, telerehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation

10.3390/jcm9092742

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Medicine