Heart Disease Patients Need to Train Leg Muscles

A heart attack is not only associated with heart muscle damage alone. Damage to the leg muscles is also associated with the severity of heart attack heart disease so that patients are also advised to exercise the leg muscles.

Various studies have shown, conditions weakened leg muscles is closely related to the severity of symptoms in patients with heart disease. Similarly, on the contrary, a severe heart attack is often followed by a weakening of the muscles in the legs.

Because of weakened, patients who had experienced heart attacks often neglect exercise to train the leg muscles. If anyone wants to practice it, usually get tired and bored and ultimately not used to exercising.

Heart Disease Patients Need to Train Leg Muscles

But experts from the University of Leeds revealed, exercise to train the leg muscles are very important for patients with heart disease. The benefit will be felt if one day the disease relapses, symptoms will be milder than if his leg muscles remain weak.

The key lies in the heating, which at times is often overlooked when doing exercise to train the leg muscles. Warm enough in this section will improve oxygenation or oxygen supply, so the muscles will not feel tired.

The benefits of warming evidenced by scientists through scanning by an infrared laser beam and fired into the leg muscles. From the observation, the movements heating proved effective in improving oxygenation and muscle strength so that it can exercise longer.

"Patients complain of chronic heart failure leg stiff so it is not used for sport. The essence of this research to show that with proper warm-up, patients can improve oxygenation in the leg muscles," said Dr Harry Rossiter, who led the study as quoted from Indiavision , Thursday (11/03/2011).