Course Description:

Breathing difficulty affects all aspects of health and quality of life including functional mobility, ADLs/IADLs, swallowing, speaking and sleeping. Spirometry assessment and exercise can be easily incorporated into pulmonary rehabilitation to optimize patient outcomes. This one hour intermediate level course for PT/PTAs and OT/OTAs is part of a series of Accelerated Clinical Practice courses. Through instruction and lab, this course provides the essential information to understand how to assess and incorporate spirometry into breathing exercise within an evidence-based pulmonary rehabilitation program.