Annual Congress Amsterdam 2011

Saturday, 24.09.2011
Sunday, 25.09.2011
Monday, 26.09.2011
Tuesday, 27.09.2011
Wednesday, 28.09.2011

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2011; 38: Suppl. 55, abstract number.

Material from 2011

4205 Abstracts
632 Slide presentations
250 Webcasts
66 Handouts
1703 e-posters
250 Multimedia files

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Exercise strategies for chronic respiratory disease

Symposium
Chairs: T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium), M. Morgan (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Aims: The aims of this session are to:
- understand the changes that occur within the peripheral muscle with increasing age and chronic respiratory disease;
- understand the basis for resistance exercise and what options are available to assess strength.

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Rationale for endurance training: is the interval training the answer? I. Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece)
Voluntary and involuntary strength training regimes M. Sillen (Horn, Netherlands)
Maintaining strength on the intensive therapy unit N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)