Located at The Bighorn PCN

138 Athabasca Avenue
Hinton, AB
T7V 2A4
780-865-4211

Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

Our respiratory therapist works with your family physician to help with:

• New diagnoses

• Early detection of lung disease

• Assess severity and prognosis

• Monitor response to respiratory treatments

• Monitor decline of lung function

• Pre-op assessment

Services offered: (Patients are referred by their family physician for appointments)

• Complete pulmonary function tests

• Spirometry/Flow Volume Loop

• Oximetry (at rest and exertion)

• Asthma and COPD self-management education (patients can self-refer)
  

• Smoking Cessation Education (patients can self-refer)
  

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• For patients with moderate to severe chronic lung diseases such as COPD, Asthma, Fibrosis, and other respiratory illnesses
  

• 8 week education and exercise class with components that may include:

• How to breath properly

• Energy conservation

• Respiratory infections

• How to prevent flare-ups

• Aggravating factors

• Respiratory medications and proper inhaler technique

• Smoking cessation

• Vaccines

• Managing stress and anxiety

• Nutrition

• Physician referral required

• Please contact the PCN to see when the next class will be starting