In recent years, research has demonstrated that exercise programs can benefit patients with lung and heart diseases. Yet many physicians do not refer such patients to any kind of exercise or rehabilitation program. Advances in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation examines the history of how pulmonary and cardiac diseases have been treated and shows how that history tends to constrain contemporary thinking in spite of significant advances in treatment.
Chapter 1,Advances in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation,pp.8-19
P.K. Wilson & T.Kawamura
