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LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast

Dec 15, 2021

On this episode, I talk about research and knowledge translation, and how it has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared.

I mention the Portney & Watkins textbook entitled Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Evidence-Based Practice. This is a great textbook for clinicians who want to learn more...


Nov 24, 2021

On this episode, I interview Dr. Clarice Tang from the University of Western Australia in Sydney, Australia about culturally- and linguistically-diverse populations and pulmonary rehabilitation.

Dr. Tang’s website is here – you can find links to her publications there.

She mentions the BOLD study by Sonia Buist....


Nov 3, 2021

On this episode, rehabilitation assistant Ashley Winter discusses the valuable role of support staff, such as rehab assistants, in pulmonary rehabilitation.

The resources mentioned in this episode are:

1) The Canadian Physiotherapy Alliance Description of physiotherapy assistants found here.

2) The British Columbia...


Oct 13, 2021

On this episode, I interview Dr. Gail Dechman, who is a faculty member & researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.  Dr. Dechman talks about the Indirect 1 Repetition Maximum test, a feasible and valid test for assessing muscle strength in pulmonary rehabilitation.

The resources mentioned on this episode...


Sep 22, 2021

On this episode, I talk about several papers which I talked about at the ATS Clinical Year in Review. I refer to a previous episode on Who’s Missing from Pulmonary Rehabilitation, which aired on March 17, 2021. The link to that episode is here.

Here are the papers I discuss:

Lindenauer PK, Stefan MS, Pekow PS, Mazor...