Heart Patients can Improve Quality of Life.

Heart Bypass Surgery Recovery can vary widely and Triple Bypass Recovery or Quadruple Bypass Surgery Recovery time can be more. Such patients can benefit with Cardiac rehabilitation and they should make the best use of their time with this. If patnets have angina chest discomfort even after adequate Bypass Surgery Recovery Time then they should try Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP / ECP) at Sibia Medical Centre, Ludhiana.


A study by Dr Seyed Kazem Shakouri and others investigated the effect of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) on quality of life (QoL) in Forty-two patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The QoL measured physical and mental health status in relation to eight health concepts: physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health, bodily pain, general health perceptions, vitality (energy/fatigue), social functioning, role limitations due to emotional health, and general mental health (psychological distress/wellbeing) in current non smokers.

Dr Sibia, director and senior ECP specialist informed that as an effective noninvasive treatment and cardiac rehabilitation method for patients with CAD, EECP has been proven to exert various beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, such as increasing the coronary perfusion pressure and arterial wall shear stress. Benefits associated with EECP include the reduction of angina and nitrate use, an increased exercise tolerance, favorable psychosocial effects and an enhanced QoL as well as a prolongation of the time to exercise-induced ST-segment depression and an accompanying resolution of myocardial perfusion defects.
An evaluation of EECP in congestive heart failure showed an improved exercise tolerance and QoL EECP is also able improve the mean blood pressure and cerebral perfusion in patients after ischemic stroke.

Initially, the prevailing theory was that EECP increases the coronary collateral circulation Numerous studies have identified several other possible mechanisms of action of EECP.

We recommend EECP Cardiac Rehabilitation for all Coronary Artery and Heart Failure patients.


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  1. EECP therapy does is it helps to increase blood supply throughout the body, with benefits that tend to remain for years together.

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