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The key is to achieve sufficient intensity of exercise (both aerobic & resistance) to achieve physiological adaptation to the muscles in people with COPD #ERSCongress2023

🌟 always great to see single leg cycling mentioned (still need to get this into clinical practice) 🌟 #pulmonaryrehab an ambitious statement "success guaranteed" Caveat IF the intensity at muscle level is enough Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 Mick Steiner you'd have been very proud 😊

Super posters from COPD Nursing Team team at #PCRS2023 1. Highlighting the need for robust diagnostic pathways for pts admitted with suspected COPD 2. The impact of multi morbidity & frailty on PR attendance

COPD patients perspectives of their care. 26 % had a digital device but lacked confidence in using it. 89% have a device but only 51% use it for health info over internet. #PCRS2023

Editorial: Getting the best from pulmonary rehabilitation thorax.bmj.com/content/78/10/… Sara Buttery

Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peak in COPD: a component network meta-analysis thorax.bmj.com/content/78/10/… Tom Ward Rachael Evans

Prevalence and assessment of frailty in #interstitiallungdisease a #systematicreview and #metaanalysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… @mickst46 @Greening_COPD Tom Ward Sunita Mathur Samantha Harrison Enya Daynes

Did you know that the Respiratory Futures website has a section dedicated to sharing multi-lingual respiratory resources? From fact sheets to videos, this health information can help support patients in a way that best suits them. Access the resources: bit.ly/3Yquoqh

BBC’s reporting on the risks of smoking is interesting - can you spot what’s missing? “Smoking increases the risk of strokes, heart disease, dementia and stillbirth as well as causing one in four deaths from cancer.” ⁦⁦Asthma + Lung UK⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-670106…

Book now for our Advanced #pulmonaryrehabilitation course 2 ways to join us: 🔸Theory (online) covering physiology, audit/accreditation, modes of delivering PR 🔸Theory & Practical skills workshop covering the above + field walking tests & lab skills leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/depart…

Effects on #musclestrength after #BloodFlowRestriction Resistance Exercise (BFR-RE) in early #inpatient rehabilitation of post-#AECOPD ,a single blinded, #RCT journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… @Greening_COPD Mick Steiner Tom Ward Enya Daynes Samantha Harrison Sunita Mathur

Brilliant overview on LVRS & how to identify patients post PR, who might be suitable for LVRS from Sara Buttery excited that she will also be presenting her talk to the LondonPRNetwork next month #Improvingoutcomes #BTSWinter2023

Asthma + Lung UK survey on setting priorities for #breathlessness research for HCP & patients is open until Jan 31st. Please share your thoughts. ACPRC British Thoracic Society (BTS) Pulmonary Rehab UHL Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis asthmaandlung.org.uk/research-healt…

Great to welcome BBC East Midlands to cover research carried out by the PHOSP-COVID study team here at the #NIHRLeicesterBRC, including a new study seeking to find the first medication to ease symptoms of inflammatory #longcovid. 📺 You can watch it here: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Joint respiratory research day: Component meta analysis by Tom Ward on PR, including 338 RCTs and almost 19k participants. Take home: 🫁 Exercise and direct supervision are the most important aspects of PR to improve exercise capacity, breathlessness and quality of life

Proud to be presenting 'Outcome measures within exercise-based rehab interventions for people with LTCs: analysis based on overview of systematic reviews' on behalf of James Manifield and the PERFORM Trial team at #ERS2024 today 🌎 PS-2 World snapshot of Pulmonary Rehab for CRD

#ERS2024 The effect of PR design on outcomes: a component network meta-analysis by Tom Ward Lorna Latimer et al. 🔹️strong evidence for directly supervised ex training 🔹️education, breathing exs and psychological interventions have outcome specific role ACPRC

Very proud watching Tom Ward present results of our component network meta-analysis of pulmonary rehab. So please I could be here with support from Asthma + Lung UK .

Accidentally turning up to the airport in the same fit is a new genre of colleague we have created in CERS Research Molly Baldwin Tom Ward ✌🏼💕