%0 Journal Article
%T Physiotherapy Intervention During Level I of Pulmonary 
Rehabilitation on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary 
Disease: A Systematic Review
%A Guilherme Medeiros de Alvarenga
%A Humberto Remigio Gamba
%A Lilian Elisa Hellman
%A Rafael Michel de Macedo
%A Vanusa Ganzert Ferrari
%J Archive of "The Open Respiratory Medicine Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.2174/1874306401610010012
%X The progressive and chronic course of COPD, characterized by difficulty in breathing, can be aggravated by periods of increased symptoms (exacerbation). The treatment often involves in-hospital care and among the interventions applied in COPD patients, physical therapy prompts good results. However the most used techniques are not properly pinpointed and there is no consensus in the literature regarding its effectiveness
%K COPD
%K exacerbation
%K hospitalization
%K physiotherapy intervention
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780503/