{"id":34674,"date":"2025-08-31T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34674\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:27:06","slug":"the-first-clinical-guide-confirms-exercise-is-an-effective-medicine-for-a-broken-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34674\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Clinical Guide Confirms: Exercise is an Effective Medicine for a Broken Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SadaNews &#8211; Studies continue to link physical exercise with good health, but recently they have provided good news for those with a broken heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The First Global Clinical Trial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors have discovered in the first global clinical trial that 12 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy or a cardiac rehabilitation exercise program that includes swimming, cycling, and aerobic exercises have helped patients&#8217; hearts recover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The achievement was announced at the annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology in Madrid, the largest global conference on heart diseases, according to the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It became clear that hundreds of thousands of people around the world suffer from Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, known as broken heart syndrome, which causes a change in the shape of the heart muscle and sudden weakness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This condition typically occurs as a result of severe psychological or physical stress, such as the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Symptoms resemble those of a heart attack, with a risk of early death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While there is no curative treatment for this condition, the study acknowledged that exercise might be a solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Long-term Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. David Gamble, a clinical lecturer in cardiology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, reported that the data showed cognitive behavioral therapy or exercise could assist patients on their road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, the results indicated that these treatments could produce long-term benefits such as reducing symptoms and the risk of death for those suffering from broken heart syndrome, according to experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews &#8211; Studies continue to link physical exercise with good health, but recently they have provided good news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18,525,135,19,17,26992,26991,26990,26993],"class_list":{"0":"post-34674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-26992","14":"tag-26991","15":"tag-26990","16":"tag-26993"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}