Preparing An Exercise Plan For People Who Have Just Suffered Cardiac Arrest

Individuals who have encountered an event of a heart attack, angina, heart failure, stroke, coronary artery bypass graft, or heart valve surgery experience multiple unfavourable healthcare outcomes. Cardiac health conditions are an enduring healthcare concern with alarming associated complications and risks. These lifelong chronic conditions affect both patient and family’s quality of life, ultimately, requiring ongoing management for cardiac patients to live longer and healthier lives. Cardiac rehabilitation programs reduce mortality and morbidity rates (Dalal, Doherty & Taylor, 2015). These programs are medically controlled cardiac programs which will modify a patient’s wellbeing and lifestyle, by implementing new lifestyle skills to

Separately from its involvement in postoperative care, cardiac rehabilitation has many direct health benefits that solidify the need for implementation. Monpere (1998) noted that CR has been able to improve exercise tolerance and reduce long term mortality due to post-myocardial infarction and is rather cost effective. Additionally, CR can improve quality of life though its multi-faceted approach. Lausten et al. (2017) reported that it is significantly associated with prevention of cardiac morbidity and mortality and can improve functional capacity in patients. Improvements to quality of life with exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation include improved fitness capacity, lowered blood pressure, healthier coronary vasculature, decreased oxygen

This behavior change project has become a huge part of my everyday life. I lost sight of how important staying in shape affects my overall mental state along with my physical well-being. Having a life that consists of so many activities such as going to school, working, and maintaining a full and happy relationship with the people I care about is hard to balance with just making time for myself. That is why keeping this three day a week workout regime over the past five weeks has been so important; it made me realize that I can make time to focus on just working on myself, and in turn, improve all other aspects of my life. Realizing of course that there are many people in this world that have real life health problems that they seek professional help for. These changes in their lives require a system or a theory that must be applied to develop a strategic an organized way to regulate or change their behavior.

The lack or delay in appropriate treatment for individuals who experience a sudden cardiac arrest has created a major public health disparity. Research into pre-hospital treatment and subsequent implementation has historically seen neglect by the medical and scientific community creating vast differences in survivability of cardiac arrests between demographic groups. In 2010, the American Heart Association and Emergency Cardiovascular Care program developed the 2020 impact goal to reduce death from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20% and double out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival rates (http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/121/4/586#sec-1). This has prompted a massive influx of research into the disparities that exist and an

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), only 21% of Americans are sufficiently physically active according to the guidelines set forth in 2008. Thus, living a sedentary lifestyle has become an epidemic, and one that is not without consequence. The CDC (2014) further states that one’s risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, stroke, depression, some cancers, and early death is noticeably higher for those living a sedentary lifestyle. Certainly, then, promoting physical activity is a simple intervention providers should practice to prommote overall health and prevent or delay the onset of disease. A motivational interview was conducted with Cherish Brown, a 22-year-old

Many people have decided to lead very unhealthy types of lifestyles whereby they don’t care about anything, not even their own health. They are ok as long as they can pay their bills and have fun in their lives. To some physical fitness is in fact as a waste of time and energy. They would rather do anything else than spend great amounts of effort working out for health and fitness.

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States (Hall & Lorenc, 2010). Evidence has shown that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is beneficial for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (McLeod, Brooks, Taylor, Currie, & Dewhurst, 2004; Zullo, Dolansky, & Jackson, 2010). Cardiac rehabilitation is a versatile program that encroaches upon many disciplines in order to create an optimal medical therapy that seeks to educate patients through counseling to make behavioral changes that will improve their health status. The goal of CR is to reduce the risk of repeat cardiac events, improve cardiovascular health, and reduce all-cause mortality with the use of evidence-based guidelines (Lawler, Filion, & Eisenberg, 2011; Lobelo, Stoutenberg, & Hutber, 2014). Exercise therapy is a key factor to programming. Effective training protocol that elicits a high rate of compliance will produce positive outcomes. Although moderate intensity continuous training has been the main training regimen recommended in cardiac rehabilitation guidelines, Ito, Mizoguchi, and Saeki (2016) found high-intensity interval training reported to be more effective in the clinical and experimental setting from the standpoint of peak oxygen uptake and central and peripheral adaptations in their review.

These types of people are always bragging about their motivation; their snapchat stories consist of health, fitness, and ‘gains’. These snap chatters usually show off their ‘gains’ by flexing their arm muscles, and snapping a picture to post on their story captioning it; “nowhere near my goal yet” or “day by day I’m getting closer”. Breakfast, lunch and dinner for these folks are protein shakes; they cannot function without protein shakes along with having to record themselves prepare it. These people live at the gym, their snapchat stories usually consist of videos; squatting, powerlifting, and making sure someone records them maxing out their goal. Overall, this type of person is determined and somehow motivates others to focus on exercising

She doesn’t not have a home gym and is very pushed off the idea knowing she doesn’t have the motivation factor to the gym at home

Cardiac rehabilitation is a program that aid patients to recover after a cardiac event. The program started in the 1960s after it was determined that the exercise and right diet has a significant effect on the heart after a cardiac event (Certo, 1985). Its sole purpose is help the patients to lower the risk factors of heart problems in the the future. The program is composed of various health workers -- such as physicians, clinical psychologist, nurses, clinical dietician, and pharmacists (Hamm, 2012). One of the main aspects of the cardiac rehabilitation program is changing the lifestyles of the patients in order to avoid further heart complications and improve overall health in

If you have problems with your heart and you've been scheduled for heart surgery or another cardiac procedure, your doctor may recommend cardiac rehab afterward. You might even undergo rehab if you have a heart attack or if your condition puts you at risk of a heart attack. The purpose of rehab is to improve the strength and functioning of your heart so it becomes healthier. A physical therapist as well as other medical professionals will work closely together to ensure you exercise safely without stressing your heart. These are some of the things you can expect.

(Crocker, 2011) According to this definition. It makes me think and wonder why I want to work out. Maybe I do not really have a reason to work out and therefore do not have the motivation to do so. I used to be 175lbs and at 6’3 I was really skinny. Now I am at the 220lbs mark and not so skinny anymore. Perhaps in comparison to the general public, I like the way I look now. But after about 6 months of no exercise. I started to increasingly dislike my body. I had a 6-pack once upon a time and now I got a little belly. My arms got much smaller than they used to be. I used to run for 90 minutes playing soccer and now going up the stairs is a struggle without running out of breath. These physiological changes drive me to get back to the gym. Going back to what I talked about earlier, I think the motivation aspect comes before changing my

Cardiac rehabilitation is a treatment program that helps improve the health and well-being of people with heart problems. Cardiac rehabilitation includes exercise training, education, and counseling to help you get stronger and return to an active lifestyle. This program can help you get better faster and reduce any future hospital stays.

People are tired of being overweight. Being overweight cause people to lose self-confidence and their self- esteem. No one wants to be that individual that stays at home all day and cannot come out to do daily activities because they are overweight and ashamed of being judged by their peers, family and outsiders. What is worse are the health issues associated with too much pounds, which can be deadly. That is why most health professionals encourage people to get physically active at least sixty minutes a day. There are plenty of exercises a person can do to get daily exercise and it does not even have to be a hard core exercise. It is so sad to see people become overweight or obese and not take action to get fit because being overweight or obese is deadly. Therefore people should exercise.

Exercise is one of the most important factors in a persons’ life. Physical activity, or the lack of it, can result in a person having a healthy life or cause them to have diabetes. The benefits of exercise are countless. The positive health results, the improvement in attitude, even better academic performance are all factors which make not exercising inexcusable.