Exercise & Strokes
1:24 minutes
If you have had or are at risk for having a Stroke, talk to your doctor and an OptiHealth Medical-Fitness Technician about a Therapeutic Fitness Training program as part of your medical treatment plan.
Video Notes
People who are moderately fit have a 63% lower risk of dying from a stroke than people who have a low level of fitness.
Having higher levels of fitness provides only slightly more protection from having a fatal stroke.
Moderate fitness seems adequate to enhance or maintain blood flow to the brain through collateral blood vessels.
Higher fitness levels do help decrease the incidence and severity of non-fatal strokes.
Conclusion: Fitness protects against the disabling and deadly effects of Strokes.
Having higher levels of fitness provides only slightly more protection from having a fatal stroke.
Moderate fitness seems adequate to enhance or maintain blood flow to the brain through collateral blood vessels.
Higher fitness levels do help decrease the incidence and severity of non-fatal strokes.
Conclusion: Fitness protects against the disabling and deadly effects of Strokes.