Heart Rate Monitor Based Exercise Program Improves Heart Functioning in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Aug 2013
Summary
A 28-year-old woman with ME/CFS, caught in a push-crash cycle and no longer able to work, used a heart-rate monitor set to beep whenever she exceeded her anaerobic threshold as a cue to sit or lie down, combined with gentle flexibility work, lying-down resistance training and diaphragmatic breathing. Over a year on the program her blood-pressure response to maximal effort, respiratory rate and anaerobic threshold all rose, and her recovery time after exercise testing shortened from about a month to about a week. She reported substantial gains in general functioning, though the piece does not describe a full return to normal health.
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Graded exercise, Pacing, Graded exercise / graded activity, Pacing and the energy envelope.
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