Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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An Olympic challenge: winners and losers in exercise training

Symposium
Chairs: F. Maltais (Quebec, Canada), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: The aims of this symposium are to:
- describe the currently available boundaries of exercise training in patients with chronic respiratory disease;
- describe the characteristics of the newly available modalities of exercise training which have been recently studied and applied;
- describe the available evidence on these modalities;
- provide a critical view on whether these modalities are already currently applicable in the clinical practice.

Current boundaries of exercise training in chronic respiratory disease E. Clini (Modena, Italy)
Going tougher on the muscle: the physiology behind one-legged exercise training T. Dolmage (Toronto, Canada)
New trends and hypes in exercise training: what is the evidence? F. Pitta (Londrina, Brazil)
Exercise in the ICU R. Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium)