The Heart Manual:Post Myocardial Infarction

• Home
• About
• How to use
• How to use this manual
• How to use this website
• Part 1
• Recovering
• Part 2
• Week 1
• Getting Home - Getting Better
• I still don't feel well
• Do I or don't I?
• Why is exercise so important?
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Relaxation
• Instruction for using the relaxation audio
• Feeling worried, fed up or bad-tempered?
• How to let go
• Knowing the truth
• If you think you may be having another heart attack
• Week 2
• Feeling Better?
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Getting started on your plan
• Relaxation
• Worrying after a heart attack
• Coronary artery disease
• You can fight back by reducing your risk factors
• Jim McGuire's heart attack
• Jim McGuire's recovery
• What can you do to reduce your risk?
• This week's risk factor: Smoking
• Quick Quiz
• Week 3
• Making Progress
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Gradually building up your plan
• Stress
• Does stress cause heart attacks?
• How to become a relaxed person
• Stress Control
• Feeling Down
• This week's risk factor: Diet
• Week 4
• Getting Better All The Time
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Gradually building up
• Anti-stress tactics
• The Stress Story so far
• Stress at work
• This week's risk factor: Being overweight
• Week 5
• Week 5: Feeling More Like Yourself?
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Thinking about lifelong exercise/activity
• Anti-stress tactics (2)
• Anti-stress tactics (3)
• Anti-stress tactics (4)
• This week's risk factor: Lack of exercise
• Sex after a heart attack
• Week 6
• Week 6: The End … and the Beginning
• The Exercise/Activity Plan
• Regular lifelong exercise/activity
• Do you ever get so angry you could explode?
• Dealing with hostility and anger
• This week's risk factor: High blood pressure
• Back to work
• What has happened over the last 6 weeks
• Week 6 Checklist
• Part 3
• Medicines
• Chest Pains
• Angina
• Breathlessness
• Hyperventilation
• Palpitation
• Hospital tests
• Treatments
• Anxiety
• Low spirits
• Stress in relationships
• Sleep