[Cardiac rehabilitation results at the physical, psychological, sexual and work levels]

Abstract

Nowadays, the finality of the cardiac rehabilitation programs (CR) is fundamentally directed to improve the patient's life quality, connected to the functional capacity increase, symptoms improvement, psychological stability and correct social and labour reintegration. Physically, it is showed that CR programs increase the total effort capacity, decrease the HR and BP figures for a fixed submaximum effort level and decrease or eliminate the symptomatology, on myocardial ischemia cases, on cardiac insufficiency cases and on peripheral arterial disease. The physical improvement produce improvement at a psychological level, reflected on a physical and sexual self-esteem, depressive humor improvement, labour stress and on the participation on leisure and sexual activity. Physical and psychological comfort it is going to be a good support facing to the labour reintegration, although it will depend on the intellectual and study level, social status and family economical situation.