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Your Exercise Rehabilitation for COPD
How does exercise help to manage COPD?
Exercise can help manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by increasing lung function and improving physical condition including muscular strength and aerobic endurance allowing activities of dailiy living to become easier and recovery from work to be faster.
Exercise can also reduce anxiety and depression and assist in coping with stress allowing for a better quality of life.
Will regular exercise help you?
Exercise can be benifitial for all types of COPD. By increasing lung function and increasing your physical conddition, activities that were once demanding and stressful on the body, become easier and recovery from them shorter. This means tasks such as walking, gardening or playing with your family are eiser.
Exercise will also help you increase energy levels so that fatigue sets in later when doing taks and the sensation of felling latheragic with subside. This in turn will increase your mode and state of mind allowing you to live a more enjoyable life.
Having greater physical fitness will allow people with COPD to have greater independence and independence for a longer period of time. Allowing for people to experience new social experiences.
What exercises get the best results?
Aerobic exercise assits COPD patients by increasing the function of the respirtory system. Although COPD can causes irraverable lung damage, the ability of the respirtory system to tranport oxygen to muscles can be increased. Aeorobic training also helps keeping the heart healithy and decrease the chance of other diseases occuring.
Strength training increases the strength of the supporting musculature of the respirtaory system to help with respirtation.
Where do you start?
The type of exercise program that best suits you will depend on the progression of the disease and your current lifestyle. By talking to an Exercise Physiologist you will be provided with a customised exercise plan tailored to suit your needs.
Talk to your GP about a referral to an Exercise Physiologist or contact Enriched. Rebates Available through Medicare Plus (with GP referral) and Private Health funds.
