Your pulmonary rehabilitation.qxp_Patient Booklet 08/04/2016 14:05 Page 1
Who can I contact for further information? A lifetime of specialist care If you need more information, please contact the pulmonary rehabilitation team: Royal Brompton Hospital Sydney Street Tel: 020 7352 8121 and ask for London Royal Brompton Hospital extension 4195 or bleep 1050 SW3 6NP tel: 020 7352 8121 Your pulmonary (available from Monday to textphone: (18001) 020 7352 8121 Friday 8.30am-4.30pm) rehabilitation Harefield Hospital Email: [email protected] Hill End Road programme Harefield Middlesex UB9 6JH tel: 01895 823 737 textphone: (18001) 01895 823 737
website: www.rbht.nhs.uk
Brosu rteki bilginin Tu rkçe tercu mesi için If you have concerns about any aspect of tedavi goru yor oldugunuz bolu me bas the service you have received in hospital vurunuz. Bolu m personeli tercu menin and feel unable to talk to those people gerçeklesmesini en kisa zamanda responsible for your care, call PALS on ayarlacaktir. 020 7349 7715 or email [email protected]. This is a confidential service. May 2016 © Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 6 7 Your pulmonary rehabilitation.qxp_Patient Booklet 08/04/2016 14:05 Page 5
Your pulmonary rehabilitation programme
This leaflet gives you information How can pulmonary What happens at the exercise • stress management and relaxation about your pulmonary rehabilitation programme. It does not replace the rehabilitation help me? session • exercise at home. need for personal advice from a Pulmonary rehabilitation can: The first step will be to check your When you start your pulmonary qualified health professional. Please current exercise range. This gives us a rehabilitation programme we will give ask if you have any questions. • help you walk further starting point from which to work with you a booklet with information on all the you. We can then see how much your topics covered in the educational talks. What is the pulmonary • feel less breathless during activities fitness level increases over time. We will such as climbing stairs, shopping and also measure how well your lungs are rehabilitation programme? dressing You will also have the opportunity to working. ask questions at each talk. The pulmonary rehabilitation programme is a course of exercise and • give you more control over your Once we have assessed your exercise education. It aims to help you to feel breathlessness ability, you will start the sessions. Where and when do the less breathless, improve your fitness and • feel more positive and better about classes run? strength, and understand more about Each exercise session lasts for one hour. yourself Pulmonary rehabilitation classes run at: your lung condition. You will warm up for five to 10 minutes, do your exercise training, and • and feel less tired too. Royal Brompton Hospital Why should I take part? then cool down for five to 10 minutes. Monday and Thursday afternoons in The programme can make a big Why does exercise help? We will always monitor how you are the physiotherapy exercise room, which difference to your life. When you have doing and will never ask you to do is on level two of the Fulham Wing a lung problem, moving around and Improving the strength of your muscles more than you think you can. building (entrance on Fulham Road, doing your normal daily activities can means you use the oxygen you breathe next to the Royal Marsden Hospital). make you feel breathless, which can be more efficiently. That helps you to feel Topics covered in the very frightening. less breathless. Each class runs from 1-3pm or 2-4pm. educational sessions include: You may avoid situations that make you Imperial College Gym become breathless – reducing the How does the pulmonary • how the lungs work Tuesday and Friday mornings at amount of activity you do. rehabilitation programme • airway clearance techniques Imperial College’s Ethos Sports Centre, However, as time goes on, you will work? 7 Prince's Gardens, South Kensington, gradually become unfit, tired and even • the benefits of exercise SW7 1NA. Our pulmonary rehabilitation more breathless. programme runs for eight weeks. Each • advice on diet Each class runs from 10am-12 noon. The pulmonary rehabilitation week, you will attend two classes. Unfortunately, we cannot provide programme helps you learn to exercise • advice on inhalers Each class runs for two hours. It consists transport to and from classes. If safely and confidently, and to manage of one hour of exercise and a one hour transport is a problem, please talk to your condition. • coping with lung disease talk on an educational topic e.g. dietary your physiotherapist. We can discuss advice. • advice on how to stop smoking the options with you.
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