Abstract
The response to a multimodal, therapeutic exercise program was studied in 184 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) complicated with ventricular extrasystole and cardiac fibrillation. Therapeutic exercise comprised auto‐genic relaxation practice, deep breathing, breath holding, and physical exercise promoting relaxation. Arrhythmias, myocardium and cardiac conductivity abnormalities, and anxiety and irritability of activated patients were all alleviated with minimum appropriate drug therapy. The efficiency of treatment was monitored clinically from electrocardiographic records, from rheography, patency of bulbar conjunctiva vessels, and from tissue oxygen utilization in patients breathing normal, hyperoxic, and hypoxic gas mixtures. It is concluded that physical rehabilitation contributes significantly to the recovery of central and peripheral hemodynamics and shortened the period of a patient's hospitalization. It seems that exercise therapy is easy to introduce into the general hospital and rehabilitative process for CHD patients with arrhythmias.
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