Low intensity laser therapy versus cardiac Rehabilitation program for ischemic heart disease patients

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of laser therapy as a new trend for improving L.V. function versus C.R in patients with HID to increase their exercise capacity and to avoid further progression ofthe disease. Sixty patients Aged 45-70 years old were selected form National Heart institute- Imbaba- Cairo. They were randomly assigned into 4 groups, each consisted of 15 patients. First group received laser therapy, second group enrolled in an exercise training program, third group received laser therapy and exercise training, and the fourth groups received their medication only. Assessment was done by cardiopulmonary stress exercise test, 24 hour holter monitoring, and dobutamine stress echo cardiography before and after 3 months of the study. Data were collected and calculated and the results showed significant increase in peak oxygen consumption, significant increase in R-R intervals of the 24 hour holter monitoring, and significant improvement in the results of dobutamine stress echocardiography of the 3 studied groups, whether there was no significant results in the control group also there were no significant results in between the 3 studied groups 50 we concluded that the laser therapy, cardiac rehabilitation and the laser therapy combined with cardiac rehabilitation are three effective IT'ethods in the rehabilitation of ischemic heart disease patients.