Indexes of cardiovascular system functioning and adaptation potential in patients after cerebral infarction and rehabilitation

The objective is to evaluate changes in the functional state and adaptation potential of the cardiovascular system at the second stage of rehabilitation after cerebral infarction. We examined and treated 66 patients aged 41 to 83 years. Holter ECG and blood pressure monitoring were performed on the 1st and 10th day of rehabilitation treatment. The rehabilitation programme included 10 daily physiotherapeutic procedures. We evaluated the effectiveness of the rehabilitation measures, considering the integral assessment indices of the cardiovascular system’s functional state. The obtained results show that the use of the integral assessment indices of the functional state to evaluate the functional state of the cardiovascular system in the course of rehabilitation measures after brain infarction is valid and pathogenetically justified. There is a distinct tendency of positive dynamics of the functioning values and increase in the cardiovascular system adaptation potential that confirms the effectiveness of the conducted rehabilitation measures. Women showed better dynamics of the circulatory system functioning values compared to men. The assessment methods used can serve as a way to monitor the effectiveness of rehabilitation in post-stroke patients.