{"id":22,"date":"2015-03-10T08:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T08:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2015-04-08T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:38:49","slug":"benefits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"cf3 ff2 fs24\">Counterpulsation increases the blood flow to the heart through sequential compression of the lower extremities of the body in synchronization with a patient&#8217;s electrocardiogram. ECP has proven to be useful in the treatment of heart attacks (myocardial infarction), cardiogenic shock, angina and congestive heart failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clinical experience indicates that patients have demonstrated improvement after external counterpulsation treatment such as:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\">Less recurrent chest pain<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\">Less ventricular fibrillation<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\">Reduction or elimination of shock symptoms<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ff2 cf3 fs24\">Decrease in heart size<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ff2 cf3 fs24\">Less progression to cardiac failure<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\"><br \/>\nAfterload Reduction<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\">Increased quality of life<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fs24 ff2 cf3\">Decreased mortality rates<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Published studies have demonstrated total relief from angina pain and elimination or a significant reduction of the ischemic (oxygen deprived) areas of the heart in approximately 78% of stable angina patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counterpulsation increases the blood flow to the heart through sequential compression of the lower extremities of the body in synchronization with a patient&#8217;s electrocardiogram. ECP has proven to be useful in the treatment of heart attacks (myocardial infarction), cardiogenic shock, angina and congestive heart failure. Clinical experience indicates that patients have demonstrated improvement after external [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/counterpulsation.co.za\/cpl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}