Perfect Heart Fitness Centre:
The Perfect Heart Fitness Centre provides qualified healthcare experts who specialize in heart rehabilitation. Services are comprehensive and include rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapists, nurses and nutritionists. It also provides a wide range of health-related services such as well-designed exercise programs, dietetics, and basic health care. The program is safe and tailored to the needs of each individual patient with heart disease. ECG monitors are connected to patients during exercises for symptomatic observations and follow-up. Before starting the exercise programs, participants have a physical examination by a physician. Health rehabilitation experts monitor their heart health throughout the course of exercise.
Research findings show the advantages of heart health rehabilitation include:
· 20-40% reduction in risk of acute cardiac arrest;
· 20-25% reduction in the death rate from heart disease;
· 25-30% reduction in hospitalization and the progression of disease;
· reduction in cardiac-vasoconstriction;
· improvement of cell activity and blood vessel walls;
· prevention and control of the dominant risk factors that may cause cardiovascular disease,
including high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and abnormal amounts of cholesterol in the
bloodstream;
· improvement of cardiac health and body balance;
· improvement in the physical performance of daily activities.
Persons who can benefit from heart rehabilitation include individuals with:
· high risk of cardiovascular disease, such as those with diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure,
high levels of fat in the bloodstream, overweight, smokers, and those who engage in little or
no exercise;
· coronary artery disease;
· myocardial infarction;
· congestive heart failure;
· post PCI;
· post CABG;
· peripheral artery disease.
Senior Health Care Exercise Program:
Aging reduces physical performance, strength and endurance but it can also be a major cause of complications and injuries in the aged such as stumbling. Abnormalities may develop as a result and quality of life reduced. The experts in exercise programs for patients with coronary artery disease or congestive heart failure have trained at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre (Los Angeles, California, USA). They have designed programs especially for senior health care. These include the following steps and procedures:
· see a doctor for physical examination and diagnosis of underlying causes of disease;
· undergo a physical fitness test;
· undergo a functional assessment test;
· undergo exercises for information gathering so the physician can customize the individualised
exercise program further. These include:
· Flexibility exercise to improve muscle flexion and muscle extension;
· Aerobic exercise to improve cardiovascular strength, such as ground walking, mechanical
walking, cycling & arm cycling;
· Resistance exercise to improve muscle and skeletal strength and endurance, such as weight-
lifting exercise;
· Balance training exercise to maintain body balance in the various stances of sitting, standing
& gaiting to compensate for the loss of body balance which causes stumbling in seniors;
· Group exercises adapted for seniors, including Tai Chi, yoga, and ball exercise.
Fitness Center Exercise Program for Dieters:
Persons interested in weight loss by dieting can benefit from the following program also available from the Perfect Heart Fitness Centre:
· see a specialist doctor for a physical examination assessment to create an individualised
exercise prescription;
· engage in stored fat burning aerobic exercise;
· engage in exercises to firm muscle and achieve good proportions;
· get a customized dietary program comprised of the appropriate amount of calories
calculated by body weight to meet actual need.
A Fitness Club for Everyone:
The centre offers exercise programs suitable for anyone who wants to maintain their health, avoid development of diseases or improve their health. The centre also has programs for persons leading sedentary lives who want to start an appropriate and safe exercise course under the closer supervision of a physician, physiotherapist and nurse.
For all persons, it is recommend that a physical fitness test is undertaken to determine whatever types and amounts of exercise activities are most suitable. Following that, they can choose any of these activities:
· aerobic exercise;
· stretching exercise;
· weight training exercise;
· exercise classes
Perfect Heart Food Corner:
A healthy nutritious meal is like “medication” prescribed by a doctor for his patient. The Perfect Heart Food Corner provides advice pertaining to nutrition and food products for patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, abnormal levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream, and kidney disease as well as for dieters and everyone who cares about their health.