Studies lung sports helps with respiratory distress

Studies: Lung sport helps with respiratory distress, sparing sparing

People with chronic congestive lung diseases (COPD) can be relieved of respiratory distress by appropriate exercise. Pulmonary physicians of the German Society for Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) in Werne (near Hamm), refer to two new studies from Norway, which give recommendations for people with such symptoms.

In people with chronic constricting lung diseases, respiratory distress can be reduced by appropriate physical exertion. Pulmonary physicians of the DGP in Werne point to two new studies from Norway, which provide recommendations for people with such symptoms. Those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COB and English: COPD) usually have a problem with the exhalation. For example, respiratory distress occurs during exercise. This often seems to cause sufferers to avoid physical exertion. And so a vicious cycle starts, because that leads to a further limitation of the performance. And there may be further effects in the organism: The lack of stress, the bones thin out and it can lead to osteoporosis.

In training, especially for patients with COPD, Norwegian scientists have now developed important clues in new studies. If breathing difficulties occur during training, the use of pure oxygen can be helpful. It increases the oxygen saturation in the blood and so the respiratory distress sets during training less quickly. Another study showed that cycling exercise can be beneficial on an exercise bike when the COPD trainees use one leg at a time. In this way, the training effect increases without being associated with an increase in the oxygen demand of the organism. This relieves the possibility of respiratory distress during exercise.

Adapted training can reduce the respiratory distress for COPD sufferers, improve physical fitness and, of course, improve the quality of life. This is not only an indication for the patients, but also for supervising physicians. You should individually encourage COPD patients to become active again and not to spare themselves. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 01.03.2010)

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