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  • Title: Is rehabilitation of patients with chronic bronchial asthma possible.
    Author: Popescu IG.
    Journal: Med Interne; 1976; 14(3):169-74. PubMed ID: 1024256.
    Abstract:
    Based on his own experience and on the data in the literature the author considers that rehabilitation of adults with chronic bronchial asthma is possible at any stage of disease if there are no complications or morbid associations to prevent it. Rehabilitation of chronic asthmatic patients requires the close collaboration of several specialists such as allergologists, chest physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, balneologists, etc. Rehabilitation in asthmatic patients may only be considered successful if they resume full-time work (in case they had been in receipt of compensation), if the medical leaves are fewer and shorter and if the drug therapy is reduced or null. The author considers that since bronchial asthma in the whole population of Romania has an incidence of 2.3-2.9% rehabilitation, though costly and sometimes "desperate", is still worth while trying for its medical, economical and psychological implications.
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