Sacred Heart

Physical Therapy uses many interventions to help patients regain their muscular strength. One modality commonly used is Russian Stimulation. Russian stimulation was developed by Dr. Yakov Kotz in the 1970s. It was used to help individuals increase their muscular strength by using different “variation of alternating currents”. It can be used by those who have had an injury and are trying to strengthen the muscles that were hurt, or it can be used by athletes to increase their muscular strength.…

from systemic venous return. As such, all systemic venous circulation will be directed to the Fontan circulation (except the coronary sinus which continues to drain into the right atrium and when the Fontan is circuit is fenestrated) bypassing the heart [31]. Many investigators believe that routine pre-Fontan cardiac catheterization is mandatory step to assess the single ventricle hemodynamic…

Contrast baths are offered to athletes and use the method of alternating vasoconstriction and vasodilation in an attempt to relieve symptoms after strenuous exercise (Bieuzen, Bleakley, & Costello, 2013). The therapeutic goal of using contrast baths is to increase blood flow and bring more nutrients to the site of the injury. By alternating cold and hot water immersion a pumping mechanism is created and this promotes soft tissue healing (Shih, Lee, Lee, Huang, & Wu, 2012). Summary In this…

Conclusion 1 : The degrees of exercise and the pulse rate are positively related. That means the pulse rate increases when the degrees of exercise increase. Explanation : - Pulse rate increases means the heart rate increases. - Heart rate increases means the frequency of the beating of heart increases. - Three reasons for the rise in pulse rate when the degrees of exercise increase. Reason ⅰ : To remove lactic acid in blood and skeletal muscle cells…

INTRODUCTION Lovastatin is a statin drug that decreases the total cholesterol level in patients diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia. The drug aims to prevent serious cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack due to blockage of arteries. Lovastatin acts as a competitive inhibitor for the HMG-CoA reductase enzyme in catalyzing the conversion of HMG-CoA to mevalonate, (Alberts, 1998). The drug is also hydrolyzes in vivo to active form β-hydroxyl acid, (Katz, 2005) and was recently researched on…

be terrifying? B. My cousin was on the transplant waiting list for eight months for a heart transplant that would never come. C. Picking who gets the organ must be a…

volume compared to normal individuals. These characteristics are determining factors for health related issues such as hypertension and heart related diseases. As a result, this will affect the individual’s activity level, and unfortunately, they cannot participate in high intensity activities – whether resistance or aerobic activities – because it requires the heart to work harder, and when the left ventricle fills with blood, the pressure will be higher at even lower blood volumes compared to…

changes in the geriatric cardiovascular system, such as: increased heart weight; decreased number of myocardial cells with enlargement of remaining cells; increased left ventricle wall thickness; increased arterial stiffness; increased elastin levels; increased collagen levels; increased left atrium size; decreased aortic dispensability; and decreased vascular tone. This causes decreased diastolic pressure (during initial filling of the heart); decreased diastolic filling; decreased reaction to…

aged and is prevalent cardiovascular disease to older people (Eliopoulos, c2014 p270). Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries, which carry blood from your heart to other parts of your body (About High Blood Pressure 2011). If you have high blood pressure, the force exerted on your arteries is too high. It 's so high that it creates microscopic tears in the artery walls that then turn into scar tissue.…

cavity again, feels for the heart, and when he finds it, he starts to pull on it. Remembering he needs to cut the heart out, he releases the skin and muscle he had been holding on to and grasps the knife. Removing his right hand from the chest cavity, he inserts the knife. Then carefully sticking his other hand inside, he clutches the heart again. Tugging on the heart, he cautiously uses the knife to cut off the arteries and veins coming from it. After he pulls the heart out, he removes the…