A Deep Dive Into the Six Minute Walk Test

LungFIT: Pulmonary Rehab Podcast

Hi everyone, and welcome to the LungFIT podcast. I am going to be taking a much needed break for the next while, so I hope you enjoy this past episode on the Six Minute Walk test. I'll be back soon with new content, but until then, thank you again for your support.

In this episode, I discuss the six minute walk test as an assessment tool, and outcome measure, and a way to create an exercise prescription.

I mention a study we did in Canada to characterize the pulmonary rehabilitation programs which were running in 2015, including the use of the 6 minute walk test. The link to that paper is here (https://cts-sct.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PR-in-Canada-Report_CRJ.pdf). I also talk about an international survey on pulmonary rehabilitation, that citation is here: https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/43/5/1326.short

I mention the technical standard for field tests in chronic lung disease, put out by the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society. A link to that paper is here: https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/6/1428

I mention the Australia Pulmonary Rehabilitation Toolkit, a link to the page where exercise prescription using the six minute walk distance is here: https://pulmonaryrehab.com.au/importance-of-exercise/case-studies/case-study-one/

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