Show exercise that Is of benefit belef it to weak heart hearl by DR JAMES W BARTON V EARS ago what was known YEARS 1 I as the nauholz bath and schott system of exercise was as the treatment for a weak muscular m u 9 c u I 1 a r heart the pa tient alsed his HEALTH arm leg hand or foot against COLUMN the resistance of tho the hand or hands of the physician or nurse who could thus regulate the amount of work or exercise the patient was wa s allowed to do during burink the last few years there has been a tendency among phy si clans including heart specialists to give these thesa patients with a weak muscular heart no exercise whatever er be beving that as men and women grow older it Is rest the heart needs not more mora work that the heart needs rest after dr barton illness of any kind and needs four to six weeks absolute bed rest after a heart attack la Is admitted that a weak heart not bo be given any exercise Is considered unwise by many physicians who point out that certain kinds of exercise can aid the heart without causing too much heart activity it might be well therefore to recall the tha suggestions of dr josef B D nylan philadelphia in medical record who points out the exercises that aid the heart 1 massage which presses the blood out of the veins and causes tho the little blood vessels carrying bood blood from veins to arteries to open more mora widely and let more blood move to and from the part aart being massaged 2 passive movements where the nurse moves tho the arms and logs lo gsand and thus exercises the muscles which cause the heart to send more blood to the tha parts this sucks the blood from the part exercised and sends mends it back to the heart 3 breathing exercises which increase the now flow of used blood on the right side of heart to the left side from whence it goes to lungs to be purified and to all parts of the body now there Is a great difference between the amount of work the heart must do when the patient takes exercise such as walking or ga games mes and the amount done when the muscles are massaged or given passive movements and the simple P ae breathing exercises but the heart does got get exercise by these methods |