Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation. A new lease on life.

For patients with restrictive as well as obstructive disease, pulmonary rehabilitation offers a comprehensive program that affects all areas of their life. Marked improvement is seen in exercise tolerance and in performing all activities of daily living. Compliance with drug therapy and other prescribed treatment also improves. The isolation, depression, and irritability that so often accompany respiratory disease are alleviated by ongoing membership in patient support groups. Patients again become active participants in life.