Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Home‐Based Exercise Training Program Before Lung Resection Surgery | Zendy

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Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Home‐Based Exercise Training Program Before Lung Resection Surgery

Author(s) -

Valérie Coats,

François Maltais,

Sébastien Simard,

Éric Fréchette,

Lise Tremblay,

Fernanda Ribeiro,

Didier Saey

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2013/291059

Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , resection , prehabilitation , training (meteorology) , general surgery , surgery , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , meteorology

Patients with lung cancer often experience a reduction in exercise tolerance, muscle weakness and decreased quality of life. Although the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation programs is well recognized in other forms of cancers and in many pulmonary diseases, few researchers have studied its impact in patients with lung cancer, particularly in those awaiting lung resection surgery (LRS).

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