Management Of Chest Pain 2

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Welcome to part 2

In the previous section, it was examined how the heart works and what investigations were made during admission.

The main point of this section was that your heart has been examined and it has been tested with a stress test.

Stress test charged to your heart maximum heart rate, and this went well, hence normal physical activity safely.

Your heart can withstand physical activity!

This section will deal with physical activity

Physical Activity

Most people know that physical activity has beneficial effects such as:

Positive effects on heart rate and blood pressure
Increased energy and improved fitness
Prevents or reduces musculoskeletal disorders

What perhaps is more unknown is the beneficial effects of physical activity on general stress and what is called "cognitive flexibility". Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to move your attention wherever you want and the ability to see things from different sides.

One can say that when training as trainer to the brain while also exercising the muscles in the body. Lately it has become more and more research and attention to this aspect of physical activity.

There is also evidence that physical activity has a positive effect on psychological distress. Whether you have mental problems or not, are the positive effects of physical activity very large and useful for everyone.

Here is an example of some nontraditional physical activity:

Training

One of the reasons that physical activity has a positive effect associated with stress, and especially strong stress reactions, is that much of what happens in the body when you exercise is the same as when you have a high stress level!

When training:

Your heart rate goes up and thus the heart pumps faster and harder
You breathe faster and get more oxygen in the blood
The blood is distributed to the major muscle groups of the body
You are sweating because of excess energy
If you push yourself hard, some get dizzy, nauseous and get blurred vision

In a stress situation occurs much the same, but the difference is that one usually does not move as much and when you do not use up the energy produced. In addition, you get a temporary and harmless imbalance between substances in the blood that enhances the physical reactions. This can lead to anxiety for the bodily reactions in themselves.

When similar reactions are associated with exercise / activity do you know why they come and we know that there is a natural explanation of why this is so, and thus experienced reactions that little daunting.

Exercise can cause you become more comfortable and familiar with the bodily reactions that are natural to the body.

Home Assignment - Physical Activity

The last three days have been home task to do light physical activity. Physical activity is very important and useful, therefore, the task now that you continue with this!

Over the next week you should do 30 minutes of physical activity every day. Two of the days you should have a little more intensity than you have done until now. The remaining days will do light physical activity. If you think the task is too easy, you can do the exercises at higher intensity.

Over the next seven days you shall make a daily activity:

5 of the days -making an easy activity for 30 min
2 of the days - making activity with slightly higher intensity at 30 min

For example:
If you chose to walk on flat terrain, making two sessions where there are some hills. The corresponding increase if you have chosen a different type of exercise.

The goal of the sessions light intensity is that you know that your heart beats, and gets a little sweaty and tired.
The goal of the sessions with slightly higher intensity is that you will know very well that the heart beats, sweat and moderately tired.

Choose a physical activity with light intensity and with a little more intensity from the list: *

Walking on flat terrain

Walk where there are also some short hills

Cycling in flat terrain

Cycling in hilly terrain

Climb stairs at home

Running outside or on the treadmill in flat terrain

Jogging out in hilly terrain or with intervals of incline of the treadmill

Swimming

Other

Activitysheet

After you have made the physical activity records this activity in the form.

We recommend that you return to activity form every day after you have done the activity to detect that you have done the activity.

Within a week you will be contacted by a project team, you will have access to the next section.

Activitysheet

During the next week's task is to make an easy activity five days and an activity with slightly higher intensity two days.
Duration of activities shall be at least 30 minutes.

What activities have you chosen? *

When do you plan to do activities? *

There is a separate form to record the activity when you have completed it. You have been given a code for this form.

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