Online rehab program for rural lung patients to expand across Maritimes – CBC
Participants encouraged to use household items like soup cans, kitchen chairs to exercise from home
May 26, 2025
When Lily MacDonald first signed in to an online workout session for women with COPD, she was sure she wasn’t going to like it. She couldn’t imagine doing an effective workout at her kitchen table.
“At first I thought, ‘How can I exercise, what am I going to do?'” said MacDonald, who lives in Glace Bay, N.S.
She was one of the first participants in a pilot project to offer virtual physical rehabilitation to lung patients in rural parts of the province.
The project went so well it will expand across the Maritimes this fall.
“I felt great, I really did,” MacDonald said. “As it happens, you live by yourself, you have no motivation, but I started back into exercising.”
