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Promoting wellness and managing chronic conditions
Published in Marian Stuart, Joseph Lieberman, The Fifteen Minute Hour, 2018
Marian Stuart, Joseph Lieberman
The literature regarding the benefits of cardiovascular exercise is even more astounding in regard to both physical and mental health. Among other effects, exercise helps to maintain cardiorespiratory fitness,11 neuro-muscular function,12 decreases the risk of metabolic syndrome,13 and even helps to prevent cancer.14 Exercise is so beneficial for mental health that according to some researchers it could be considered a psychotropic drug.15 It is very powerful in combatting depression and anxiety, retarding the progression of dementia,16 and has been shown to be helpful as a mood stabilizer in bipolar disease.17
Lipid disorders and emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease
Published in Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Marie-Anne Essam, Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Care, 2018
Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Marie-Anne Essam
Lifestyle interventions are important and effective components in primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease and atheromatous vascular disease in general. Regular aerobic (cardiovascular) exercise has an important and graded effect in reducing cardiovascular mortality. Sedentary individuals have a 1.6 greater relative risk compared with highly active individuals. Exercise has a beneficial effect on blood pressure and serum lipids by reducing triglycerides and has a modest effect in reducing LDL and in increasing HDL levels. Conversely, lack of exercise increases the risk of coronary heart disease and cardiovascular mortality.
Heart disease in the elderly
Published in Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Nick Brown, Management of Cardiac Problems in Primary Care, 2018
Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan, Nick Brown
All forms of exercise are helpful. Cardiovascular exercise (e.g. dancing, walking, cycling, Tai Chi) improves balance, flexibility, strength, confidence and cardiorespiratory fitness. These benefits reduce the number of falls in elderly people. Patients should be taught and encouraged to exercise while sitting or lying in bed. This strengthens their arms and legs and improves suppleness.
Speed controller-based fuzzy logic for a biosignal-feedbacked cycloergometer
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2022
S. Aldo Lechuga Ensastiga, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz, Adyr A. Estévez-Bén
Cycloergometer is used in noninvasive tests that allows studying the response of the heart to physical exercise. There are numerous diseases that directly affect the heart, which impact the mobility and quality of life of patients. Certain studies highlight the increase in the number of people who have some type of cardiovascular disease and its notable influence on the normal social performance of the patient (Al-Kasasbeh et al. 2012; Apostolopoulos and Groumpos 2020; Oldridge and Taylor 2020). The majority of affected people require cardiovascular exercise as part of the treatment, which is achieved through controlled physical activity. The therapies are carried out in the different health centers under the supervision of physiotherapists. During these rehabilitation therapies, heart rate measurement is essential, as it provides information on the condition of the patient (Saulnier et al. 2009).
Effects of interval training versus continuous training on coronary artery disease: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2021
Many studies have suggested that cardiovascular exercise training is the most effective mode of exercise in the prevention and treatment of hypertension (Fagard, 2011; Kokkinos, Narayan, and Papademetriou, 2001; Wallace, 2003). Kelley, Kelley, and Tran (2001) have reported that aerobic exercise can reduce resting SBP and DBP in adults and that reductions are greater in hypertensives than in normotensives. Peters et al. (2006) also reported that 6 weeks of isometric exercise training was effective in lowering SBP in pre-hypertensive and hypertensive individuals. Our results showed that the resting SBP in the IT groups was significantly higher than that in the CT group, while there was no difference in the resting DBP between the two groups, which indicated that the additional effects of exercise training may be small or absent.
Feasibility of an eight-week telerehabilitation intervention for patients with unresectable thoracic neoplasia receiving chemotherapy: A pilot study
Published in Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, 2020
Valérie Coats, Hélène Moffet, Claude Vincent, Sébastien Simard, Lise Tremblay, François Maltais, Didier Saey
Patients did cardiovascular exercise for a mean time of 247 ± 48 minutes over the 15 supervised exercise sessions and 223 ± 111 minutes over the 8.6 ± 3.0 unsupervised exercise sessions. The mean duration of each cardiovascular exercise session was 18 ± 6 minutes and 26 ± 9 minutes during supervised and unsupervised exercise sessions, respectively. Data concerning the cardiovascular exercise duration for each patient are represented in Figure 3. Over all the supervised sessions, the mean percentage of time spent in low intensity (< 60% 2peak), moderate intensity (60–80% 2peak) and high intensity (>80% 2peak) during the cardiovascular exercise training was 42 ± 11%, 37 ± 13% and 22 ± 8%. Corresponding values for the unsupervised sessions were 40 ± 8%, 37 ± 18% and 23 ± 17%. Adherence was similar during the supervised compared to the unsupervised exercise sessions. The proportion of exercise time according to heart rate zone for supervised and unsupervised exercise is represented on the Figure 4. Concerning the resistance training, patients did a mean time of 13.9 ± 1.5 min per session for a total of 11 hours that correspond to 13% of the total duration of supervised exercise session. During unsupervised exercise session, patients were only monitored through cardiovascular exercise and thus we cannot report precisely on the length of the resistance training.