Is there life after myocardial infarction?

Rehabilitation - education and activity - should begin at the moment of infarct (or even before, in high risk subjects) to minimize both physical and psychological deconditioning.Immobilization and mobilization, with decreasing proportions of the former and increasing proportions of the latter supervised and directed by the primary physician aided by the health care team, will result in individualized optimum return to healthy activity. The skeleton routine used in one hospital is cited as an example of a framework on which to build.