Pulse Rate Response to Footwear in Rehabilitation Phase of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG) Patients – A Clinical Trial Study

Introduction: Cardiac rehabilitation is a well-established treatment in patients with coronary artery disease. However, no research has intervened the implementation of the footwear immediately after CABG surgery or the during the rehabilitation phase.

Aims & Objectives: To find the effect of walking with running shoes and without running (with slippers ) shoes on pulse rate of rehabilitating CABG subjects and to compare the effects produced after walking with running shoes and without running shoes.

Methodology: On fifth postoperative day CABG, subjects were asked to cover a distance of 100meters with slippers and with running sports, shoes with a rest time of one hour between the two sessions. Pulse rate was measured after covering the 100-meter distance with both types of footwears.

Results and Analysis: Students t- test & f -test were applied to find out the relevance among the attained values of pulse rate after walking 100 meter distance without running shoes (with slippers) and with running shoes to that of the resting pulse rate.

Conclusion: The study concluded that incorporation of footwear that is comfortable running shoes is physiologically important to include in the rehabilitation protocol of Coronary artery by pass graft subjects, as it will not risk the patients with abrupt increment in the pulse rate that may be a risk factors for them.