A method for measuring a patients fitness/exercise tolerance comprises a patient performing an exercise to the rhythm of a tune, step 116, until they can no longer maintain the pace of the tempo, and analysing the patients exercise tolerance from the time they are able to maintain the pace of the exercise and from the level of tempo of the tune, step 118. The patient undergoes an initial test, step 112, to determine a suitable level of tempo of the tune to perform the exercise. The method may utilize wireless communication technology and the internet. The method is particularly aimed at sufferers of chronic obstructive airway disease and may be performed in the patients home with the patients condition monitored immediately via the internet.
Method and apparatus for exercise tolerance measurement