Effectiveness of Supervised Exercise Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Versus Unsupervised Exercise Training following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Abstract

Cardiac Rehabilitation CR is a multidisciplinary program that includes patients education on the importance of exercises and reduction of risk factors by combined measures of medical surgical nutritional exercises lifestyle modification and psycho social adaptations Cardiac rehabilitation includes primary and secondary prevention that includes essential component of graded exercise training with growing demand on individualized training methods to enhance the benefits like reducing morbidity mortality risk factors and enable them to have near normal quality of life In spite of the benefits in supervised training and limitations such as adherence recent trends of evidence based practice and younger age of surgical candidacy entrusts to explore the benefits of simple and structured supervised exercise training in Indian settings Hence this study was taken up to prescribe Supervised Exercise Training during Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation of post Coronary artery bypass graft Surgery CABG patients newline