Exercise Benefits Heart Patients
17 June 2009
No CommentTraditionally, patients who had heart failure are normally told to rest.
However, in the changing in the light of evidence, there are recommendations suggesting that physical activity could be beneficial and may even increase the survival rates in some of the heart patients.
There was an analysis that found exercise has an improvement in the overall well being and at the same time found that it could possibly slightly reduced the risk of hospital admissions or even death.
The message for patients with heart failure is that there are possible benefits from exercise and both the quality of life and physical fitness is important.
But you will not be harming yourself if you do not exercise because you can’t to it due to orthopaedic issues.
People who have heart failure normally where the heart loses the ability to pump blood enough to support the body’s needs usually suffer from poor quality of life. Simple activities like climbing the stairs could leave them tired and short of breath and in worse scenarios, it could lead them to frequent hospitalization or even at a high risk of premature death.
Though the hospitalization and death rates were slightly lower in those who exercise, it is still a reduced risk of about 11%.
According to the studies, half of the heart patients who exercise said that they had palpable improvements in their quality of life.
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