[The role of physical training on the bicycle ergometer with an optimal pedalling rate in enhancing the efficacy of the sanatorium rehabilitation of patients who have had a myocardial infarct]. / Rol' fizicheskikh trenirovok na veloérgometre s optimal'noi chastotoi pedalirovaniia v povyshenii éffektivnosti sanatornoi reabilitatsii bol'nykh, perenesshikh infarkt miokarda.

The impact of physical training on a bicycle treadmill was examined in 171 patients with prior myocardial infarction by using individual pedalling rates at a sanatorium stage. During sanatorium rehabilitation, the proposed bicycle training allowed the authors to obtain the best clinical effects, more pronounced positive ECG dynamics, improved cardiac function with a simultaneous decrease in peripheral resistance, i.e. the economization and optimization of circulatory performance and considerably higher exercise tolerance. The positive effect of physical training with the optimum pedalling rate in patients with myocardial infarction at a sanatorium rehabilitative stage retained within 6 months and this was followed by a reduction in the number of anginal episodes, lower temporary disability and hospitalizations by thrice, restoration of the working capacity of a greater number (by 1.5 times) of patients than other patient groups.

[Adaptability of patients to freely selected and forced physical exercise after myocardial infarction]. / Adaptatsiia bol'nykh, perenesshikh infarkt miokarda, k svobodno izbiraemoi i naviazannoi fizicheskoi nagruzke.

In 45 patients with myocardial infarction in the rehabilitative period in health resort centers, bicycle ergometric tests with forced routine continuously gradually increasing exercise or without forced graded exercise in accordance with the "free option" motor motivation test were performed at the beginning and at the end of treatment. The work performed at the beginning and at the end of treatment. The work performed with free option is characterized by substantial differences in its volume, duration, intensity, and rate. Free option exercise is submaximal, close to tolerant, but simultaneously shows lower values in heart rates, systolic blood pressure, "double product" and cost-effective index. The free option exercise test is a more sensitive indicator of alterations in the status of a patient with myocardial infarction during health resort rehabilitation.