Cardiac rehabilitation, a medically supervised programme including exercises, should be provided to patients with heart problems for them to recover after surgery, a Japanese physical therapist said.
HCM City (VNA) - Cardiac rehabilitation,a medically supervised programme including exercises, should be provided topatients with heart problems for them to recover after surgery, a Japanesephysical therapist has told a training workshop on cadiopulmonary exercisetesting.
Cardiac rehabilitation helps stabilise, delayand slow down the progress of arteriosclerosis and the rate ofre-hospitalisation and death among patients with cardiac diseases, YuguchiSatoshi of the University of Health Sciences told the two-day event whichstarted yesterday at the HCM City Hospital of Rehabilitation and ProfessionalDiseases.
“It also helps control coronary risk factors,improve pulmonary function and quality of life, and reduce depressionsymptoms.”
Rehabilitation is divided into three phases, thefirst one for regaining body function and activities for daily living, thesecond one for recovery to return society, and the last to prevent recurrence,he said.
In the first and second phases patients arerehabilitated at hospitals, and could be asked to exercise at home in the thirdphase, he said.
Dr Dinh Quang Thanh, head of the physicaltherapy department at the hospital, told Viet Nam News thatpost-surgical cardiac rehabilitation had not been paid much attention in thecountry.
The hospital would soon start providingrehabilitation to patients having heart surgery at the HCM City Heart Instituteand Cho Ray Hospital.
Tran Trung De, deputy head of the hospital, saidcardiac rehabilitation was a new thing and his hospital would provide trainingfor doctors in the south.
Last March, Major General Nguyen Hong Son, headof Military Hospital 175 in HCM City’s Go Vap district, had said the hospitalwas setting up a ward to provide rehabilitation as well as further treatmentpost-surgery for heart patients.
The ward would open in the second quarter thisyear, he said.
The Vietnam National Heart Association hasforecast that one fifth of the population will suffer from heart diseases andhypertension this year.-VNA
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At the event (Photo: VNA) 
