Exercise Prescription for the High Risk Cardiac Patient
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ISBN: 0873229800 / Publisher: Human Kinetics, January 1998
The director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at the Mayo Clinic sets out criteria for prescribin...
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The director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at the Mayo Clinic sets out criteria for prescribing a degree of exercise that falls within the narrow range of benefiting cardiac patients without adding risks of further complications or recurring cardiac events. He reviews the disease processes, basic treatment exercise physiology, and outpatient exercise rehabilitation of patients with chronic left ventricular dysfunction, myocardial ischemia, or both. He also includes 11 case studies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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