Rehabilitation for cardiovascular diseases

Doctors begin to deal with the rehabilitation of a patient after a heart attack in the hospital. It is clear that there is an individual approach to everyone. You will be prescribed mandatory medications and procedures, a course of physical therapy, and even sent to a sanatorium for a while.

But! Rule one: the success of recovery depends half on the patient, because the main condition for rehabilitation is a change in lifestyle. That is, a healthy diet, competent physical activity, proper sleep, timely pill intake.

Actually, all these actions are aimed at lowering blood pressure, cholesterol levels and, very importantly, stabilizing the emotional state.

Smoking and alcohol

Smoking affects the vascular wall, regardless of whether there are atherosclerotic plaques or not. Until recently, there were 500 components in tobacco smoke, now there are almost 5,000 of them, 200 of them are pure poison. Just six months of abstinence reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease several times. Doctors are not so categorical about alcohol. For prevention, many even recommend a glass of cognac or a glass of wine daily. No more!

Proper nutrition

Proper nutrition is very important. Replace butter with vegetable oil, ice cream with homemade lemonade. And eggs, or rather, egg yolks, it is better not to get carried away at all – one a week is enough.

Do not eat fruits and vegetables indiscriminately. There is no doubt – they are useful. But only the doctor will choose the right ones for you, such that they will help in recovery, and will not bring harm if, for example, sugar or lipids in the blood are elevated.

Physical therapy

Physical therapy solves a whole bunch of problems – puts the pulse and blood pressure in order, relieves excess weight, and together with the weight – the same pressure and excess cholesterol and improves mood. The patient undergoes the first training sessions under the supervision of doctors and modern medical equipment. Then the complex of prescribed exercises will need to be performed independently.

Now many rehabilitation centers are introducing Scandinavian walking into their program. This walking covers 90 percent of the muscles. For comparison: when we just walk, half of the muscle groups work, if we run – 60 percent, and on a bicycle, oddly enough, even less – only 40 percent. And it is not necessary to participate in cyclocross for an organism that has recently experienced enormous stress.

But to maintain at least some form, it is not necessary to buy sticks. To begin with, just try to bring your walking to 10,000 steps a day. In fact, it's not that much – just an hour at a leisurely pace.

What is definitely forbidden in the first months after the illness is swimming. It turns out that it gives the strongest load on the weak heart.

Where to undergo rehabilitation

The first stage of rehabilitation is carried out in a hospital in patients with acute myocardial infarction who have undergone coronary artery stenting and who have suffered acute cerebral circulatory disorders.

The second stage is also carried out in the hospital, but after discharge from the vascular center. It is held in the Lipetsk sanatorium and the city Emergency Hospital No. 1.

The third stage is represented by the outpatient polyclinic link of the polyclinics of the city of Lipetsk.

A heart attack is not a verdict

Don't make a disabled person out of yourself ahead of time. If you want to prolong a normal life for many years, do not be lazy – follow not so complicated rules. In the end, leading a healthy lifestyle is much more pleasant than going through hell called a "heart attack" once again.

Chief Freelance Cardiologisthealth Department of the Lipetsk region
Gindler A.I.