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PG18 Targeting the locomotor and respiratory muscles in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: novel interventional tools and rehabilitation strategies

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: A. Pires De Dias Marques (Aveiro, Portugal), E. Barreiro Portela (Barcelona, Spain)
Aims: To update on the benefits of exercise training and other multimodal therapeutic strategies that aim to combat skeletal muscle wasting in COPD patients; to instruct on the currently available non-pharmacological therapeutic strategies that optimise the benefits of lower limb and respiratory muscle training and nutritional support when they are selectively applied to COPD patients with specific phenotypes; to learn about new advances in the diagnosis of COPD locomotor and respiratory muscle dysfunction; to familiarise participants with novel devices available that are used to mitigate dynamic lung hyperinflation and dyspnoea sensations during rehabilitation exercise training.

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Muscular and functional effects of partitioning exercising muscle mass in COPD A. Nyberg (Umeå, Sweden)
The relevance of respiratory muscle dysfunction and novel treatment options in COPD D. Langer (Leuven, Belgium)
Targeted pulmonary rehabilitation and nutritional support in patients with COPD: do phenotypic differences matter? F. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Novel diagnostic tools and interventions for COPD locomotor and respiratory muscle dysfunction I. Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece)