Pulmonary Rehabilitation services at North Country Hospital is a program that is designed to help people with chronic lung disease learn how to breathe easier and improve their quality of life.
The program offers:
- Education
- Breathing retraining
- Physical exercise
- Nutritional counseling
- Proper respiratory medication use
- Oxygen Therapy
Who benefits form pulmonary rehabilitation?
Anyone with respiratory illness including:
- COPD (emphysema, chronic bronchitis)
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Sarcoidosis
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pre-and post-lung transplantation
- Lung cancer and post lung cancer surgery
- Lung volume reduction surgery
- Other pulmonary conditions
What are the goals?
The goal is to achieve the highest possible level of independent functioning by helping patients to:
- Reduce and gain control of symptoms
- Increase activity through exercise training
- Become more involved in activities of daily living
- Experience less difficulty with breathing
- Reduce the need for hospitalizations
- Understand how to use medications and oxygen appropriately
- Participate in social and recreational activities like our Better Breathers Group