[Physical therapy in cardiology]

With different part the physiotherapy is of importance in the general therapy plan of the patient with heart disease. In long-term preventive and therapy programmes, respectively, of the coronary heart disease as well as of the essential arterial hypertension physiotherapy is a real alternative or a complementary element to pharmacotherapy. In the hospital therapy means of physiotherapy often form the basis for nursing. The further spreading of functional cardio-circulatory syndromes and the burdening of the outpatient medical sector connected with this as well as a consumption of medicaments more and more characterized by polypragmasia demands an increased application of effective means of physiotherapy. Apart from this in social-medical respect important task in future the long-term care of patients with chronic coronary heart disease and essential arterial hypertension will set organisational and scientific methodological tasks to physiotherapy.