Gymnastics in heart diseases / by Claës J. Enebuske.

  • Enebuske, Claës Julius.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Gymnastics in heart diseases / by Claës J. Enebuske. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when rest in bed, digitalis and other agencies have done their work. The ultimate end of the treatment is to establish the compensatory hypertrophy, to train the patient to such degree of activity as is consistent with the safety of the heart and to keep him informed of the limits of exertion, which he must not go be¬ yond. My own experience at present is limited to some cases of mitral incompetency with symptoms in milder degree. I succeeded invariably by the gym¬ nastic movements to reduce the heart-rate, if it was high before the beginning of the movements, the pulse exhibiting at the end of the movements appre¬ ciable increase in strength. The highest reduction of the pulse-rate, which I have obtained, within an hour, has been by 38 beats, in an instance where the rate was 120 at the beginning and 82 at the end of the day’s exercises. On an average the reduction has been by 10 to 15 beats after an hour’s gymnastics, more if the pulse-rate was high, less, the nearer it was to the individual pulse norm. It is my hope that larger casuistic material in the near future will enable me to give some contribution to the demonstration of the value and scope of gymnastics in heart-diseases.