Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2009
Abstract
Pulmonary rehabilitation has been shown to be an important part of the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Exercise training is the corner stone of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD, nevertheless not every COPD patient responds well to this form of therapy.
The basic principle of the pulmonary rehabilitation is the aim to replace the insufficient amout of oxygen by higher oxidative enzymatic activity of red muscle fibers and so increase the posibility of higher ambulation activity. But unfortunetaly not all patients respond well on physical training.
For this reason is necessary to find some other methods for optimise the effects of exercise therapy.