Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation has been slowly gaining momentum for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but access is still a challenge.

"The science shows that there is greater benefit from pulmonary rehab than any pharmacology we can give a COPD patient, so a patient will get more bang for their buck out of doing pulmonary rehab than taking all of their bronchodilators," Linda Nici, MD, of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, told MedPage Today . Improvements in shortness of breath, functional exercise capacity, and quality of life have been observed, as have improvements in overall survival and rehospitalization .

Much like cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart disease, pulmonary rehab is a multi-domain medical i

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