PHYSICAL MEDICINE

  Cardiac rehabilitation, commonly known as cardiac rehab, is a specialised outpatient exercise and education programme. The programme is intended to assist you in improving your health and recovering after a heart attack, various types of heart disease, or heart surgery. Exercise training, emotional support, and teaching about lifestyle changes to minimise your risk of heart disease, such as eating a heart-healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and quitting smoking, are all common components of cardiac rehabilitation. Establishing a strategy to help you rebuild strength, keep your condition from worsening, lower your risk of future heart problems, and enhance your health and quality of life are all goals of cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation programmes have been shown in studies to minimise the chance of mortality from heart disease as well as the risk of future heart problems. Cardiac rehabilitation is a treatment option for persons suffering from various types o...

Sports injuries are different from regular injuries and mainly affect an athlete. Sports injuries occur when people engage in sports, training, or activities. Sport injuries are caused by overtraining, a lack of conditioning, and incorrect technique when doing an activity. Warming up before exercising or participating in any physical activity raises the chance of injury. Although, sports injuries are mainly found in athletes involved with any form of physical sports, there are another species of athletes – the weekend athletes (engaging in sports only during weekend). This kind of “athletes” are actually more prone to such injuries, owing to their sedentary work week and the sudden weekend physical exploits that are bound to take its toll on their bodies. Sports injuries differ from typical injuries in that players put their bodies under a lot of stress, which can lead to muscle, joint, and bone wear and tear. Sports injuries are better treated with the help of sports physiotherapy...