PULMONARY REHABILITATION

Breathe Easier & Get Back Into Life

If you have a difficult time catching your breath due to a chronic lung condition, outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation can help you breathe easier again by slowly rebuilding your strength and conditioning.

Our treatment plans are individualized to help our patients set and meet realistic goals. Patients usually attend one-hour sessions 2 - 3 times a week for 6 - 10 weeks.

Program Features
♦ Exercise to help you increase endurance, strength and flexibility. You may ride a stationary bike, treadmill or do exercises in a chair. You will be taught stretches to do before and after exercise. You may also use weights to build strength. Your pulse rate and oxygen levels will be checked.

♦ Education to learn how the lungs work and how your lung problem
affects your breathing.

♦ Medication and equipment education such as how and when to take medications, and how to use oxygen (if prescribed).

♦ Breathing techniques to help you learn to control shortness of breath.

♦ Learning to pace yourself during daily tasks to give you more energy and help you do more in your daily activities.

Patients Served
Pulmonary rehabilitation serves adolescent to geriatric patients with any chronic lung disease or condition that affects breathing such as:

♦ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
♦ Pulmonary Fibrosis
♦ Asthma
♦ Chronic Bronchitis
♦ Cystic Fibrosis
♦ Neuromuscular Disorders
♦ Pre - and - post lung transplant patients

Program Benefits
You will be surprised to discover what you can do! Pulmonary rehab will help you:

♦ Do more of the things you enjoy.
♦ Improve your strength, endurance and independence.

♦ Do daily activities such as personal and household tasks with less shortness of breath.
♦ Understand your symptoms and medications. This can reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
♦ Learn to relax and not panic when you feel short of breath.
♦ Quit smoking. Patients are not required to quit, but cessation tools are available when you are ready.
♦ Get answers to your healthcare questions.
♦ Set and meet realistic goals.

Your Rehab Team
As the patient, you are the #1 member of the Pulmonary Rehab Team.
Other members include:
♦ Rehab Coordinator
♦ Physicians
♦ Program Director
♦ Respiratory Therapists
♦ Physical Therapists
♦ Occupational Therapists
♦ Dieticians
♦ Pharmacists
♦ Social Workers
♦ Smoking Cessation Specialist

We also involve your family in your care or other individuals you choose.

Breathe easy
Pulmonary rehabilitation services are reimbursable through Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance carriers with a referral from your
primary care physician or pulmonologist with pre-approval.

For more information,
please call us
(315) 338-7160

Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Rome Memorial Hospital
1500 N. James St.
Rome, NY 13440
www.romehospital.org