Pulmonary Rehabilitation is an individually tailored, multidisciplinary program formulated through diagnosis, therapy, emotional support and education. The goal is to stabilize or reverse both the physio- and psychopathology of pulmonary diseases in an effort to return the patient to the highest possible functional capacity allowed by his or her pulmonary handicap and overall life situation.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation is designed to help control and alleviate, as much as possible, the symptoms and pathophysiologic complications of pulmonary diseases and to teach the patient, family and/or significant others how to achieve optimal capability for carrying out his or her activities of daily living.

To accomplish these objectives the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program uses a multidisciplinary approach that utilizes the expertise of several health professionals including: