For those who fear having to live with limited mobility and less physical activity after suffering a heart attack or heart failure, ESIC Medical College and Hospital’s Cardiac Rehab Programme (CRP), a first of its kind, comes as a ray of hope.
According to doctors, patients such as 19-year-old Lokith, who was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, and had an exercise capacity of only 33 seconds, and 47-year-old Lingam, a welder who suffered a heart failure earlier this year, after taking the CRP, have shown a dramatic change, and are now running up to 21 km.
The programme is physician-supervised and aimed at improving heart pumping capacity and physical fitness.
