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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 2016-10-12, Page 1212 News Record • Wednesday, October 12, 2016 2016 F-150 UNDISPUTED VALUE FORUPTO PURCHASE FINANCING I 1�ONTHS ON SELECT NEW 2016 F-150 MODELS NO -EXTRA -CHARGE SAFETY PACKAGE* WINTER TIRES 1 WINTER RIMS 1 PRESSURE SENSORS FIND IT. DRIVE IT. OWN IT. VISIT FINDYOURFORD.CA OR YOUR ONTARIO FORD STORE. Our advertised prices include Freight, Air Tax, and PPSA (if financed or leased). Add dealer administration and registration fees of up to $799, fuel fill charge of up to $120 and applicable taxes, then drive away. !?2,g.- o U 0 8 E o1ygMaNfl o taozg go - ▪ n E d a t o >ig yE g Et 5E 1 12,E a E' w p o O158, • U a Jo�o� F_ U 3 • Rom h L"1syEc _ 81 = o c a E 3 m = 3 g E o „,:r7= o, ▪ a a N o E U a oo a .3 n E t . 2 2 0 ogfyo (USiriusXIY(l)) Available in most new Ford vehicles with 6 -month pre -paid subscription. New study suggests doctors worldwide should emulate Goderich's Healthy Hearts cardiac rehab program Darryl Coate Postmedia Network A study of patients in a Goderich cardiac rehabili- tation program is chal- lenging how similar pro- grams worldwide should run. Published in "The Cana- dian Journal of Rural Med- icine" last spring, the paper "Rural cardiac reha- bilitation: a 20 -year suc- cess story" shows that patients who participate long-term in cardiac reha- bilitation programs are substantially healthier than those discharged after a year and told to independently exercise. Before council Sept. 26, some of the paper's authors said that their study of patients in the Healthy Hearts Rehabilita- tion Program has world- wide significance. "We have shown through this study that people who are involved in cardiac rehab, that are allowed to stay with the program and do stay with the program, their physio- logical markers of fitness can be maintained for a decade or longer," said Dr. Michael Dawson, one of three authors of the paper who spoke to council Monday night. The study analyzed 866 stress tests of 85 Healthy Hearts program patients over the last 18 years, finding that those who have been in the program for two years were able to perform a stress test -- which is usually walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike -- 15 per cent longer than they did after their first year in the program. And over the next nine years, patients performed the test 35 per cent longer than they did after their first year in the program. Most patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs complete the program anywhere between six weeks and a year and a half, following which they are encouraged to exercise on their own. After exiting the program the patient usually exhibits a decline in health. However, the paper shows that those who stay in the program indefinitely have a marked improvement in their health over the long term, Dawson said. "Any program, any car- dio rehab program in the world which usually dis- charges people after six weeks, six months, a year and a half, they're going to have to take notice that that's not the best thing for their patients, that pro- grams should be looking at redesigning to allow people to participate long term," Dawson said. Since most cardiac rehabilitation programs discharge patients before the two-year mark, there is no data on the long- term effects of patients receiving this type of care over a long period of time, let alone nearly two dec- ades, said E. Kent Gillin, a retired Doctor of Rehabili- tation Sciences from the University of Western Ontario and the primary researcher on the study. That is except for those at Health Hearts, he said. This study has never been done before because "this evidence does not exist [elsewhere] in the world," said Dawson. The second part of the study was then to under- stand why patients stay in the program for an aver- age of eight years. "They have you doing sit-ups and calisthenics and bikes, and I wouldn't stay with it," Gillin joked, but then added that most people don't stay in theses programs when given the option "and that's what fascinated us." He said most people experience the benefits of exercise, but those bene- fits aren't usually enough to keep people returning to the program. What they discovered, he said, is that there's something unique to the Goderich facility. "The reason they stayed with the program has to do with the amount of laughter and fun they had in the program and some- thing called hedonic well being," he said. Chocolate is an exam- ple. Hedonic well-being is like chocolate, Gillin offered; something that brings pleasure and quickly dissipates. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13