Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Flashcards
What is cardiac rehabilitation?
Process by which patients with cardiac disease, in partnership with a multidisciplinary team, are encouraged and supported to maintain optimal physical and psychological health
What benefit does cardiac rehabilitation have?
intervention for secondary prevention
- reduce cardiac deaths
- reducing risk factors
- enhances psychological factors
What patients are included ?
- MI
- coronary artery bypass graft
- angioplasty
- stable angina
- valve repair
- congenital repairs
- transplant
- heart failure
- arrythmias
What are the physiological benefits?
- improved cardiovascular efficiency
- reduced atherogenic and thrombotic risk factors
- improved coronary blood flow,reduced severity of atherosclerosis and myocardial ischaemia
What are the psychological benefits?
- reduced anxiety and depression
- enhances mood and self-efficacy
- resumption of chores, sexual activity
- return to work
- increased social interaction
What are patients barriers to exercise?
- bad weather
- too tired
- cant afford it
- dont know how
- fear
- not in the mood
- no time to do it
What is the method to overcome barriers to cardiac rehabilitation?
set goals
How should the patient set goals?
SMART
- specific
- measurable
- achievable
- realistic
- time specific
Outline the difference between activity and exercise.
activity- sporadic in nature and inconsistent in intensity
exercise- purposeful and sustained
What is the purpose of a warm up? what should its duration be?
- 15 minutes
- prepare the muscular, nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular systems for the main work out
What is the conditioning phase? How long is it?
- 20 minutes
- designed to produce a training effect. circuit based
What does the FITT principle of exercise stand for?
- frequency
- intensity
- time
- type
How long should a cool down last? What is the point?
- 10 minutes
- pulse lowering exercises, aim to lower the pulse and blood pressure gradually
What is the BORG scale?
- scale ranging from 6-20
- takes into account your fitness level
- matches ow you feel you are working wit numbers
