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Activa Cardio is a pioneering initiative for the prescription of therapeutic physical exercise for people who have suffered a coronary syndrome, which is developed in collaboration between the City Council, the FFIS and AMURECAR, with the impulse of the Reina Sofía Hospital.
The City of Murcia is the first in the Region that joins this program that will be developed in the Palacio de los Deportes, during the next six months.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, present the Activa Cardio program, a pioneering program for the prescription of therapeutic physical exercise in patients with heart disease that is developed in collaboration between the City Council, the FFIS (Foundation for Health Training and Research) and AMURECAR (Asociación Murciana Pro-Rehabilitación Cardíaca),
José Ballesta said that "this Program, promoted from the Hospital Reina Sofía, is based on the prescription of physical exercise from the consultations of medicine and nursing, to patients who have suffered an acute coronary syndrome and who can benefit from a sports practice designed to his measure, which takes into account both his clinical history and his physical condition. "
For this, the City of Murcia, the first of the Region that joins this initiative that will start tomorrow, facilitates the Sports Palace, in addition to the necessary material for the development of the activity.
The exercise program has been designed by graduates in CAFD specialized in health, sports doctors, family doctors and cardiologists.
It develops in 24 weeks (six months), three days a week, with a total of 72 sessions lasting 1 hour.
Currently, a total of 30 patients have been evaluated for inclusion, but the demand is increasing.
There are two groups, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
After the first six months of the rehabilitation period, patients must maintain the habit of physical exercise with a second phase of the program, assisted by AMURECAR monitors.
In the presentation of this coordinated action in the field of Promotion of Physical Activity as a healthy lifestyle have also been present the Councilor for Sports and Health, Felipe Coello, the manager of the Hospital Reina Sofia and Area VII Health, Juan Antonio Marqués , and the president of AMURECAR, Francisco Javier Medina.
The Cardiac Rehabilitation Units refer patients
The health professionals in charge of prescribing physical exercise to patients are the doctors of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Units.
The health professional, depending on the clinical characteristics of the patient, incorporates it into the program taking into account a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria that all patients must meet to optimize the program in the benefit-risk binomial.
The execution of the Physical Therapeutic Exercise programs are carried out under the direction of a graduate in CAFD.
In this way, a multisectorial methodology is offered with the active participation of the health professionals of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Services, the City Council (Department of Sports and Health), AMURECAR (Asociación Murciana Pro-cardiaca rehabilitation) and the Ministry of Health.
goals
The Active Cardio program aims to promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles through physical exercise with the involvement of the citizen in the care of their health.
Through the execution of a program of physical exercise planned, structured and adapted to the characteristics of each patient, the quality of life and the prognosis of heart patients is improved (with the consequent decrease in relapses and mortality rate).
In addition, the risk factors associated with diseases and total body weight are reduced, mainly at the expense of fat percentage.
Activa Cardio provides health professionals with the necessary support structure (human and material resources) to recommend the practice of physical exercise.
What is physical therapeutic exercise?
The therapeutic physical exercise is a planned and complex process, in which, there is an organization of the workloads destined to stimulate the physiological processes of supercompensation of the organism thus favoring the development of the different capacities and physical qualities and whose ultimate purpose is the cure or relief of diseases or their symptoms once diagnosed.
It is demonstrated that the physical training used as part of a cardiac rehabilitation program has favorable effects in terms of quality of life, morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular diseases.
To achieve such beneficial effects it is necessary that the fundamental principles of physical training are met, and the appropriate intensity of the exercises is an essential factor.
It is currently considered that maintaining and promoting cardiovascular health requires performing moderate intensity aerobic exercises at a minimum of 45-60 minutes five days a week.
Aerobic exercises allow mobilizations of large muscle groups for example: marches, races, cycling, can be performed for a long time without reaching exhaustion and, without fatigue to prevent talking at the same time that the exercise is performed.
Inclusion criteria
Patients who have suffered acute coronary syndrome and are in phase III of cardiac rehabilitation, older than 18 years, demonstrated tolerance to exercise.
Exclusion criteria
Uncontrolled arrhythmias, symptomatic heart failure, other heart diseases (assess according to risks and clinical repercussions), symptomatic peripheral arteriopathy, recent thromboembolic disease, aortic aneurysm, renal or hepatic impairment of clinical importance, renal or hepatic transplant, severe COPD.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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