Zwick R H, Lichtenschopf A
Univ. Klinik für Innere Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Tulln, ärztlicher Leiter Ambulante Pneumologische Rehabilitation Therme Wien Med, Österreich.
Sonderkrankenanstalt Rehabilitationszentrum Weyer/Enns.
Pneumologie. 2015 Sep;69(9):545-8. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1392858. Epub 2015 Sep 3.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a complex intervention with growing evidence, effective and without side effects, which led to a wide acceptance in the last years. Its history is young, in the 1960s and 1970s clinicians started to establish a comprehensive program for pulmonary patients. This article is a very subjective and brief description of the history of pulmonary rehabilitation and an attempt to picture the status quo 2015 in Austria.
