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Phone: (207) 596-8880

 These are questions we can help you answer,  issues we can help you address and challenges we can help you face.

  • How to begin exercise? How to be more active?  
  • Breathing  exercises to control shortness of breath
  • The Respiratory System: How your lungs work.
  • What is Chronic Lung Disease?
  • Understanding your lung disease.
  • Understanding your breathing medicines, inhalers, spaces, nebulizers and more.
  • Simplifying your daily activities. Conserving your energy.
  • Keeping your air passages clear.
  • Understanding your lung health tests.
  • Nutrition & lung disease.  
  • Your health risks: Staying healthy. What can you do?
  • Panic breathing and relaxation techniques.
  • Stress and breathing. Coping with stress.
  • Emotional challenges of living with chronic lung disease.
  • Building your home exercise & strength training plan.
  • Aging with chronic lung disease.
  • Your community resources for lung disease.


 

  • Introduction
    Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services is the Lung Health Wellness Program at Penobscot Bay Medical Center.
  • Education Topics
    These are questions we can help you answer and issues we can help you address.
  • Goals and Benefits and Program Requirements
    Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a program, of education, exercise training and peer support to help patients with chronic lung disease control symptoms, become more active and have a better quality of life.
  • Group Meeting Information
    Join us the last Tuesday of every month for lung wellness topics, light refreshments and more.
  • Our Mission
    Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program: A program for patients with lung disease at Penobscot Bay Medical Center's Betty Fisher Rehabilitation Center.
  • Patient Self-Management
    Patient self-management and quality of life through education and support.
  • Program Team
    Our team is multi-disciplinary and consists of respiratory therapists, nurses, exercise specialists, dieticians, occupational and physical therapists and other healthcare professionals.

Updated: 11/4/09


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Lung Health

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