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her patients to perform while making
the process fun. Her method inspires
results. “I love what I do,” she said,
“because I can see how much it bene-
fi ts the people I work with.”
If you have symptoms of COPD
or another lung disease and would
like more information about joining
a pulmonary rehabilitation program,
talk with your physician fi rst. He or
she will need to formally refer you to a
program and probably require you to
obtain a pulmonary test to determine
the extent of your disease. After referral,
you might be asked to fi ll out an
extensive questionnaire, followed by
a detailed interview. If you qualify for
the program, you will typically receive
a detailed manual, a course guide and
schedule of classroom instruction and
exercise.
While I cannot guarantee any
PHab program will do as much for you
as it has done for me, my advice to
any lung disease patient is: don’t put
off fi nding out how much this option
might improve your quality of life.
Cultivating a friendship with people
who have the same lung problems you
do is also a marvelous way of joining
an informal support group that can
help you deal with your disease more
effectively.
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