Pulmonary Rehab: Educating Your Lungs to Improve Breathing

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Pulmonary fibrosis is a serious lung disease that causes scarring of the lungs, making it harder for patients to breathe properly. There is currently no known cure available, but there are several treatment options that help patients to cope better with the disease and ease PF symptoms. Among these, is pulmonary rehabilitation. Pulmonary rehab helps patients while educates them about their disease, about pulmonary and lung disease and how to live with them. In this video shared by

Pulmonary rehab helps patients while educating them about pulmonary and lung diseases and how to live with them. In this video shared by Providence Health & Services – Western Montana, listen to Susi Mathis, Exercise Physiologist from Providence Health & Services, as she discusses how pulmonary rehabilitation works, how it can help pulmonary fibrosis (and other lung disease) patients, what type of subjects are discussed in the rehab classes, and much more.

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