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(Chest. 1996;109:821-824.)
© 1996 American College of Chest Physicians

Safe Load Carrying After Uncomplicated Myocardial Infarction

A Simple Prescriptive Method

Rudolph H. Dressendorfer PhD1; Victoria Hollingsworth MA2; Barry A. Franklin PhD2; Gerald C. Timmis MD, FCCP2; and Christopher DeWitt PhD3

1 Cardiovascular Health Enhancement and Exercise Rehabilitation Program, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico
2 From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology (Cardiac Rehabilitation), William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan
3 From Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Aiken

Measuring maximal handgrip strength at the time of hospital discharge provides a simple method for prescribing load holding and load carrying in patients who have had myocardial infarction.

Key Words: load carrying • load holding • myocardial infarction • static exercise

Submitted on September 22, 1995
Accepted on September 25, 2007






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