The mission statement of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation is: To reduce morbidity, mortality, and disability from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases through education, prevention, rehabilitation, research, and aggressive disease management.
The third week of march is the National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, and some hospitals use it to educate patients and the community in general about lung health.
Breathing is one of those activities that people don’t pay much attention to…. unless you can’t breathe. Thousands of Americans suffer from pulmonary deficiencies, like emphysema, bronchitis and asthma, as well as cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, and others. Depending on the degree of the condition, some of these patients go thru pulmonary rehabilitation, which mainly focuses in educating patients and teaching them how improve their breathing quality using exercises.
This year, the week of March 14 – 21, 2010, Medical Clinics, Pulmonary Centers, Hospitals, and individual caregivers will be spreading Education & Awareness for National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week. There will also be some Health Fairs going on.
Some of these hospitals provide activities for their patients and the community in general like quizzes, promotional items with related and inspirational messages, Raffles, free screening, prizes, educational session about nutrition and exercises, how to quit smoking and other activities.
If you or someone you know are interested in any of these educational materials and testing, you should contact your doctor.
We have designed lapel pins, embroidered patches and stickers targeted to those health organizations and other companies that want to make a statement about pulmonary rehabilitation and the prevention of pulmonary conditions.
