Chronic respiratory diseases: The dawn of precision rehabilitation.

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is undoubtedly a pivotal intervention in the management of patients with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) with troublesome and persistent exertional symptoms and exercise intolerance. The majority of patients attending PR programmes in the modern era have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but we increasingly see expansions to include those with other CRD. The importance of the exercise training component of PR is appropriately recognized, but clearly, a sizeable fraction of patients with advanced CRD - many with significant co-morbidities - may not reach training thresholds where physiological benefits are consistently achieved. [Extracted from the article]