Pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

COPD has significant extrapulmonary effects as weight loss, nutritional abnormalities, and skeletal muscle dysfunction. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs are beneficial to COPD in order to improve exercise capacity, muscle force, symptoms, and health-related quality of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of PR program to: Improve functional capacity as assessed by 6MWD test, improve dyspnea level as assessed by MRC dyspnoea scale, improve PFT and improve ABG. It was performed on forty-five COPD patients. They are divided into: 15 patients for aerobic training group, 15 patients for respiratory training group and 15 patients were control group. Regarding aerobic training group: There was a…