Pulse Rate Response to Footwear in Rehabilitation Phase of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG) Patients – A Clinical Trial Study Mam Shaily Razdan1, Sarkar Aparna2 1Research Scholar Department of Research, Singhania University, Jjunjhunu, Rajasthan 2Asst. Professor, AIPT K-Block, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh Correspondence Address: Shaily Razdan, Research Scholar Department of Research, Singhania University, Jjunjhunu, Rajasthan, India. srazdan@amity.edu. 91.98.18.77.02.99
Online published on 31 October, 2012. Abstract Introduction Cardiac rehabilitation is a well-established treatment in patients with coronary artery disease. However, no research has intervened the implementation of the footwear immediately after CABG surgery or the during the rehabilitation phase. Aims & Objectives To find the effect of walking with running shoes and without running (with slippers) shoes on pulse rate of rehabilitating CABG subjects and to compare the effects produced after walking with running shoes and without running shoes. Methodology On fifthpostoperative day CABG, subjects were asked to cover a distance of 100meters with slippers and with running sports, shoes with a rest time of one hour between the two sessions. Pulse rate was measured after covering the 100-meter distance with both types of footwears. Results and Analysis Students t- test & f -test were applied to find out the relevance among the attained values of pulse rate after walking 100 meter distance without running shoes (with slippers) and with running shoes to that of the resting pulse rate. Conclusion The study concluded that incorporation of footwear that is comfortable running shoes is physiologically important to include in the rehabilitation protocol of Coronary artery by pass graft subjects, as it will not risk the patients with abrupt increment in the pulse rate that may be a risk factors for them. Top Keywords CABG, Rehabilitation, Pulse Rate, Resting Pulse Rate, Running Shoes(WS), Slippers (WOS). Top |