Computer Game Helps COPD Patients Breathe Better
15 Apr 2008 2008年4月15日 根據新的研究,慢性阻塞性肺疾病( COPD )病患,經訓練玩利用呼氣控制的電腦遊戲,可能獲得更好地控制他們的呼吸。
"COPD is a double-edged sword: the incapacitating lung condition can cause such serious shortness of breath that every-day physical activity, such as walking a flight of stairs, becomes unduly burdensome-and yet one of the few effective symptomatic treatments for COPD is the very thing that its victims dread most: exercise," said leading researcher Eileen G. Collins, Ph.D., of the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois and UIC.
「慢性阻塞性肺病是一把雙刃劍:功能不夠的肺可能會導致嚴重的呼吸急促,以致於每天的活動,例如上樓梯,成為過於沉重的負荷。而其中的幾個有效的症狀治療:運動,也是慢性阻塞性肺疾患者非常恐懼的。」領導這項研究的Eileen G. Collins博士如是說。