Heart school
Heart schools are mostly interdisciplinary medical and therapeutic facilities for people with cardiovascular diseases to train people to behave in a way that is gentle on the heart. The term "heart school" is not protected. This includes cardiological departments of hospitals, psychotherapists , resident doctors, but also paramedical providers. The term has not yet found its way into the specialist medical literature.
Objective and target group
The aim of a cardiovascular school is to comprehensively record and support people with cardiovascular diseases and those at risk. The offer is aimed at patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases ( high blood pressure , coronary heart disease , cardiac insufficiency , cardiac arrhythmias ), but also for their relatives. People with a predisposition for a future cardiovascular disease also receive help from a heart school.
concept
The concept of the heart schools applies to the whole person, not just to his illness and its symptoms. It takes into account the process of the disease in the context of a developing person's entire life story. After the use of the necessary and often life-saving cardiological and / or cardiosurgical measures, the subsequent rehabilitation focuses on lifestyle changes through healthy nutrition, exercise, abstinence from nicotine, and psychological care in order to prevent the disease from progressing.
Heart schools encourage a lifestyle change with medical and emotional support. In addition to a healthy lifestyle, it includes education about the causes of pathological processes and their transformation into healthy processes. Through artistic therapies, mindfulness training, breathing therapy , nutritional training, psychological counseling and exercise therapy , holistic processes are stimulated in people that train self-activity, self-awareness and willingness to open up.
- Scope and form of organization
The heart schools in Germany usually work with an intensive introductory phase (intensive week or weekend) and a one- or six-month phase with monthly three to four-hour courses. A contribution to the costs by the health insurance company is possible depending on the insurance company and individual application.
Course content
- Psychological-therapeutic work
- Awareness of your own health situation
- Stimulation of mental self-healing powers
- Recognition of biographical laws: Typical life crises and their course
- Expansion of the ability to engage in dialogue : in a group, in dialogue , in internal dialogue
- Exercise and relaxation
Physical exercise and teaching methods of relaxation are important components of the heart school.
- Movement training z. B. in the context of cardiac sports
- Rhythmic walking
- Meditative relaxation
- Eurythmy Therapy
- Heart healthy diet
The Mediterranean diet forms the basis of a healthy heart diet.
- High fiber diet
- Meaning of unsaturated fatty acids
- Low meat diet
- Seasonal and regional products
- Eating together
- Art therapy
literature
- Annette Bopp , Thomas Breitkreuz, Andreas Fried, Jakob Gruber: Strengthening the heart: The holistic program: Holistic self-help for infarct and heart failure Gräfe and Unzer Verlag GmbH, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-8338-2172-1
- Annette Bopp , Andreas Fried, Ursula Friedenstab (eds.): The Havelhöher Heart School, New Perspectives for Heart Patients, Verlag Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus, Stuttgart, 2009
- Dean Ornish : Revolution in Heart Therapy Lüchow, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-363-03108-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concept Herdecker Herzschule ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Herdecke Community Hospital, 2013
- ↑ Charter of Heart Schools , Heart School Hamburg 2012, accessed on September 1, 2013
