Physical therapy is highlighted as an important supporting role in the rehabilitation of patients with cardiac pacemakers.
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Supports physical therapy in pacemaker rehabilitation; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
was introduced about five years ago for the treatment of complete heart block with Stokes-Adams seizures. The number of patients who will be candidates for internal pacemakers is rapidly increasing. Physical therapy can play an important supporting role in the total re habilitation of these patients. More than 80 per cent of those who need pacing are over sixty years of age, and the heart condition is usually only one of their disabilities.
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