The benefits of rehabilitation for palliative care patients

E Barawid, N Covarrubias… - American Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Palliative care requires an interdisciplinary team approach to provide the best care for
patients with life-threatening illnesses. Like palliative medicine, rehabilitation also uses an …

An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: key concepts and advances in pulmonary rehabilitation

MA Spruit, SJ Singh, C Garvey… - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the
management of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American …

Respiratory muscle training in children and adults with neuromuscular disease

IS Silva, R Pedrosa, IG Azevedo… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases
affecting the anterior horn cell of spinal cord, neuromuscular junction, peripheral nerves and …

Different types of upper extremity exercise training in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: effects on functional performance, strength, endurance, and ambulation

I Alemdaroğlu, A Karaduman, ÖT Yilmaz… - Muscle & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction We investigated and compared the effects of 2 different types of upper extremity
exercise training on upper extremity function, strength, endurance, and ambulation in …

Exercise and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

JPL de Almeida, R Silvestre, AC Pinto… - Neurological …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative
disease in which much burden is geared towards end-of-life care. Particularly in the earlier …

Ventilatory control in ALS

NL Nichols, J Van Dyke, L Nashold, I Satriotomo… - Respiratory physiology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease. ALS
selectively causes degeneration in upper and lower (spinal) motor neurons, leading to …

Rehabilitación respiratoria

MRG Rous, SD Lobato, GR Trigo, FM Vélez… - Archivos de …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been shown to improve dyspnea, exercise capacity and
health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

Inspiratory muscle training in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review

M Eidenberger, S Nowotny - NeuroRehabilitation, 2014 - content.iospress.com
Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease with rapid
involvement of the inspiratory muscles, leading to respiratory insufficiency. Death often …

Pulmonary rehabilitation

MRG Rous, SD Lobato, GR Trigo, FM Vélez… - Archivos de …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been shown to improve dyspnea, exercise capacity and
health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

Inefficient skeletal muscle oxidative function flanks impaired motor neuron recruitment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis during exercise

F Lanfranconi, A Ferri, G Corna, R Bonazzi, C Lunetta… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
This study aimed to evaluate muscle oxidative function during exercise in amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis patients (pALS) with non-invasive methods in order to assess if …