Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Xiaodan Liu^1,2, Peijun Li³, Jian Li³, Lu Xiao¹, Ning Li³, Yufan Lu³, Zhengrong Wang³, Jianqing Su³, Zhenwei Wang⁴, Chunlei Shan^1,2, Weibing Wu³

¹School of Rehabilitation Science, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ²Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shanghai Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ³Department of Sports Medicine, Shanghai University of Sport, ⁴Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

Presented here is a protocol to investigate the effects of home-based prescribed pulmonary exercise in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, which is modified based on traditional Chinese exercises according to dyspnea and limited exercise capacity observed in COPD patients.