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- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Comprehensive, individualized respiratory therapy
By addressing all aspects of your health — from helping you strengthen your heart strength, improve your diet, and address your mental health to helping you quit smoking — Novant Health's pulmonary rehabilitation can lead to improved outcomes and avoiding possible complications. Rehabilitation therapy can also help you manage your chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medication and be a powerful treatment for emphysema or chronic bronchitis treatment.
With pulmonary rehabilitation centers available across North Carolina, we make participation accessible. Some programs may be open to the community.
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Transformative Care to Live Your Best
Research shows that participating in a pulmonary rehabilitation program can improve your treatment outcomes and make it easy for you to better manage — and possibly reduce — your symptoms. Rehabilitation therapy can help you see treatment breakthroughs for a variety of respiratory conditions. It can also be an option for you if you have had/are planning to have lung volume reduction or lung transplant surgery.
If you have another related condition that makes it difficult to breathe, such as pulmonary hypertension or heart failure, talk to your doctor to see if you could be a candidate for pulmonary rehabilitation.
Expect Remarkable Results on Your Terms.
Novant Health’s rehabilitation therapy is designed to empower you to adapt what you learn to your everyday life once you complete your program. You should leave our pulmonary rehabilitation centers feeling:
- Enhanced strength, endurance, and breathing ability
- Improved overall mental health and quality of life
- Increased exercise tolerance
- Empowered to participate in physical and social activities
- Educated about all aspects of pulmonary disease management and prevention
Participating in a pulmonary rehabilitation program can also reduce your overall medical costs by cutting down on doctor visits.
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Home Care Assistance
As needed, our case managers and respiratory care providers can help you:
- Arrange for home care services
- Explore long-term care options
- Find durable medical equipment, including home oxygen arrangements
Your Care Community
You’ll be in excellent, compassionate hands while participating in a Novant Health pulmonary rehabilitation program. You will be treated and coached by a diverse, interdisciplinary team of licensed and/or certified respiratory care professionals, which may include the following. Each provider plays an essential role in helping you breathe stronger and healthier.
A respiratory therapist is a pulmonary specialist with expert training to provide a wide range of respiratory care services. They provide invaluable care in all kinds of different units in clinics and hospitals. For example, they may put in and take out your breathing tube before and after surgery or help your newborn breathe better while in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). If you are in a situation where you are critically ill and need the highest level of care — such as an intensive care unit (ICU) stay — you will more than likely have respiratory therapy at some point.
A clinical exercise physiologist uses exercise as therapy to improve your respiratory health and symptoms. They’ll teach you exercises and other techniques to help you get stronger and work towards achieving a healthy, active lifestyle.
A balanced diet contributes to better respiratory health. Dietitians help you set realistic nutrition goals — that work with your lifestyle and budget — to empower you to make changes as needed to improve your habits and overall health. They may also connect you to delicious recipes, healthy meal plans and other valuable nutrition resources.
When you need respiratory care for a concern that requires advanced training, you may be referred to see a pulmonologist. Pulmonologists — sometimes called pulmonary doctors, lung doctors, or respiratory doctors — are medical doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating respiratory system conditions. Novant Health’s pulmonologists are experts in performing complex medical procedures for ongoing (chronic) and serious respiratory conditions. Pulmonologists may work in either clinics or hospitals; some have additional specialization in pulmonary critical care.
Mental health social workers provide support throughout your care plan. Their tasks include getting background information, updating your clinical records, providing family therapy and preparing you for when you will be discharged.
Psychologists are trained mental health professionals with doctoral degrees. They may offer psychotherapy, propose treatment options and teach you how to manage your symptoms effectively.
Chaplains provide spiritual care and support that recognizes the importance of your personal story, values, cultural, and religious practices, even if you do not hold to a specific religious belief system.
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Get Started with Respiratory Care.
To get started with advanced respiratory care, make an appointment with your primary care provider. Clearly describe the symptoms you’re experiencing. Your provider may give you a referral for pulmonary rehabilitation, respiratory therapy, or a pulmonologist if needed.
Specific conditions treated can vary by location. Your provider can help you schedule at the right respiratory care location for you.
You can make an appointment in MyChart, Novant Health's secure, convenient online healthcare management tool. With MyChart, you can schedule appointments, view test results, refill prescriptions, and even have virtual visits with your providers right from your computer or smartphone.
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