HYDRO PHYSIO on South Korean Television

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Anchor: The weather is going to be cold from tomorrow that makes people who suffer from cardio-cerebrovascular disease be concerned. In recent days, they have being treated with a new rehabilitation method in Jeju. A customized treatment according to patients’ conditions allows them to recover from the diseases quickly. Hyehee Gu leads us off.
Reporter: 60-year-old Jaeyeon Kim suddenly felt tearing pain on his heart three months ago. He was diagnosed as AMI (Acute myocardial infarction). It was really hard for him to take one step on stairs right after his surgery but his condition gets much better now. If patients have weak joints, it is not easy to do aerobic exercise which is important for AMI patients. For this reason, those people do aerobic exercise underwater, instead. The efficiency in hydrotherapy is amazing as you can adjust the parameters, for instance, water current, height and intensity etc.
Patient: The doctor recommended hydrotherapy as I have poor joints. I have lost about 15 lb and my heart rate has become normal since I got this treatment. I have no difficulties in walking and breathing now.
Reporter: This therapy is not applied to all patients yet. Medical team prescribes exercise according to each patient after evaluate their cardio pulmonary functions. Their heart rate is recorded while patients are walking and jumping.
Doctor: We sort out the data with blood pressure, reactivity during workout and exercise ability shown on echocardiography.
Reporter: Hydrotherapy is effective method because most of AMI patients are in the older age group and suffer from arthritis at once.
Doctor: First of all, we can decrease weight-bearing depending on water level in case of underwater treatment. Then, patients can work out their muscles neither by increasing speed nor bearing their body weight.
Reporter: The customized rehabilitation treatment gets popularity because even AMI patients may recover their cardio pulmonary function if they constantly do aerobic exercise for three to six months.

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