Mechanisms and Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Individuals with Stroke: Emerging Role of its Impact on Improving Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Health

 How fucking incompetent was your doctor in not creating protocols on this over a decade ago!

Send me hate mail on this: oc1dean@gmail.com. I'll print your complete statement with your name and my response in my blog. Or are you afraid to engage with my stroke-addled mind?  Survivors would like to know why you aren't solving stroke.

 

Cardiac rehab program recommended for stroke patients October 2013

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Mechanisms and Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Individuals with Stroke: Emerging Role of its Impact on Improving Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Health

Provisionally Accepted

Sara J. Cuccurullo^1* Talya K. Fleming¹ Hayk Petrosyan¹ Daniel F. Hanley² Preeti Raghavan³

• ¹Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, United States
• ²Brain Injury Outcomes, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, United States
• ³Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, United States

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Human and animal studies have demonstrated the mechanisms and benefits of aerobic exercise for both cardiovascular and neurovascular health. Aerobic exercise induces neuroplasticity and neurophysiologic reorganization of brain networks, improves cerebral blood flow, and increases whole-body VO2peak (peak oxygen consumption). The effectiveness of a structured cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program is well established and a vital part of the continuum of care for people with cardiovascular disease. Individuals post stroke exhibit decreased cardiovascular capacity which impacts their neurologic recovery and extends disability. Stroke survivors share the same risk factors as patients with cardiac disease and can therefore benefit significantly from a comprehensive CR program in addition to neurorehabilitation to address their cardiovascular health. The inclusion of individuals post-stroke into a CR program, with appropriate adaptations, can significantly improve their cardiovascular health, promote functional recovery, and reduce future cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events thereby reducing the economic burden of stroke.

Keywords: Stroke, Cerebrovascular Accident, stroke rehabilitation, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Exercise, physical activity, Neurorehabilitation, stroke recovery

Received: 25 Jan 2024; Accepted: 17 Apr 2024.

Copyright: © 2024 Cuccurullo, Fleming, Petrosyan, Hanley and Raghavan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: MD. Sara J. Cuccurullo, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Edison, 08820, New Jersey, United States

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