Resumen de Resistance Training in Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation
Many phase II cardiac rehabilitation patients suffer from general musculoskeletal weakness and atrophy caused by inactivity associated with recovery, sedentary lifestyle, or old age. As a result, patients often lack the capacity or the confidence to perform everyday living tasks, and so their psychological and emotional well-being frequently suffers. The addition of resistance training to usual-care, cardiovascular-only programs offers solutions to these problems, problems that are not effectively addressed by usual-care programs alone
