Physician-Supervised Exercise Programs in Rehabilitation of Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
- Council on Scientific Affairs
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THE INCREASING interest in physical fitness and awareness of health maintenance on the part of many middle-aged Americans have led to the development of special programs and facilities to meet this demand. The application of these same programs in the rehabilitation of patients with coronary heart disease, while cautious and tentative at first, has become an important development in medical care that has had increasing impact on the management of such patients. The recent scope of the clinical investigations of exercise rehabilitation and the magnitude of the applications that some workers have proposed have led the Council on Scientific Affairs to request three of its advisory panels of experts to report on the state of the art of exercise rehabilitation in this specific form of heart disease.
This intensification of rehabilitation efforts that uses habitual physical exercise as a therapeutic mode, for patients suffering from or at risk of coronary
Footnotes
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This statement was prepared by the Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA). The Advisory Panel on Coronary Disease and Exercise Testing includes the following: Robert W. Anderson, MD; Thomas C. Chalmers, MD; Herman K. Hellerstein, MD; Henry D. McIntosh, MD; Richard S. Ross, MD; David Skinner, MD; George E. Burch, MD; Eugene A. Stead, MD; Richard L. Varco, MD; William E. Burnette, Secretary; Richard J. Jones, MD, Secretary; Theodore Cooper, MD, Representative; John Kirklin, MD. The Advisory Panel on Exercise and Fitness includes the following: L. Loring Brock, MD; Blair Erb, MD; Samuel Fox, MD; Evalyn S. Gendel, MD; Ray W. Gifford, Jr, MD; William L. Haskell, PhD; Jim Nicholas, MD; Gregory Thomas; William E. Burnette, Secretary. The Submaximal Exercise Tolerance Test Advisory Panel includes the following: Sidney Alexander, MD; Theodore Cooper, MD, CSA Liaison Member; V. F. Froelicher, MD; Robert M. Kohn, MD; Edward A. Lichter, MD; Richard J. Jones, MD, Secretary.
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This report is not intended to serve as a standard of medical care; standards of medical care that are determined locally and are constantly subject to change are established on the basis of all the several facts of the individual case.
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