Rehabilitation strategies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

This talk discusses the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation, reviewing current studies that have previously been taken place alongside currently being undertaken place and are at Harefield Hospital.

• To review what is pulmonary rehabilitation
• To gain knowledge of PR in IPF and COPD
• To understand muscle stimulation in advance IPD
• To gain insights into the co-design of a home-based rehabilitation programme

Dr Claire Nolan, lecturer in physiotherapy at Brunel University and Senior Research Physiotherapist at Harefield Respiratory Research Group.

Dr Nolan’s main research interests are pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic respiratory disease; in particular rehabilitation strategies, physical activity, behaviour change and outcome measures.