AllOne Health offers a program to help you manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a lung disease that affects millions of people. COPD includes diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. About 24 million adults in the U.S. have evidence of impaired lung function indicating that COPD is under-diagnosed. If you have COPD, it is important for you to learn about your disease and how you can manage it.
An AllOne Health Coach will help you manage your COPD while working toward the following goals:
- Relieving your symptoms with no or minimal side effects of treatment
- Slowing the progress of the disease
- Improving exercise tolerance (your ability to stay active)
- Preventing and treating complications and sudden onset of problems
- Improving your overall health
COPD management includes:
- Learning more about your COPD
- Leading a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise and diet
- Quitting smoking
- Avoiding infection
- Following medication therapy and oxygen therapy
- Retraining your breathing
- Learning techniques to bring up mucus
- Developing an action plan
Improve the quality of your life by enrolling in this program; all you need to do is call an AllOne Health Coach toll-free, weekdays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time, at 1-866-430-2551 (TTY 1-877-720-7771).
For more information about our COPD Management Program, click here.
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