title: Should all patients with COPD be exercise trained?
abstract: Exercise training is one of the most powerful interventions to provide symptomatic relief in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The purpose of this minireview is to discuss how exercise training can improve limb muscle dysfunction in this disease. Various exercise training strategies will be outlined, along with their beneficial effects and potential limitations. Strategies to optimize the gains achievable with exercise training will be presented. Whether exercise training may exert deleterious effects in some patients will also be discussed.
authors: Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
authors: Fernanda
authors: F
authors: Ribeiro
authors: Marie-Eve
authors: ME
authors: Thériault
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Debigaré
authors: François
authors: F
authors: Maltais
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D005121:Extremities; D006801:Humans; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D053580:Muscle Strength; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000503:physiopathology; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; exercise training; skeletal muscle