Re: Cardiologist too conservative?

Truth <yamantaka@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

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> Any treadmill that I've ever used for patients' exercise treadmill
> testing (ETT or "stress test") is a proprietary one that is attached
> to a computer and cardiac monitoring system, and sold/serviced by a
> medical device company. The treadmill automatically increases in speed
> and grade depending on what protocol I'm using.

Thanks for this response.  I haven't had a stress test in years, and I
was interested to see how well I would do on one.  Actually, I would
like to be able to do a stress test every few weeks and see how my
regular workouts are effecting my ability to perform this specific test.

Basically, I think that this sort of test sounds like quite a bit of
fun.

The problem is that I don't really want to involve a doctor.  Not that I
have anything against doctors.  I just don't want to go through the
expense and hassle of going to the doctor just so that I can see how
long I can run on his treadmill.  After all, I'm not sick, nor am I some
sort of elite athlete whose continued progress would justify involving
doctors.

That being the case, finding a treadmill that can be programmed to
increase speed and incline at known intervals is easy.  Finding one that
has a 20% incline (or more) appears to be another story.  Even the fancy
ones at my local fitness club don't do that.

Oh well, I might just have to create my own "Jason" protocol that adds
less incline and more speed.

> But aside from that, they look pretty much like a treadmill one would
> find in a health club.

The treadmill part is probably manufactured by the same people, although
the inclines involved are definitely not standard.

> The computer gives a constant, realtime print out of the patient's EKG
> tracing and periodically makes a hard copy for the treadmill test
> re****t.

I don't need anything that fancy.

Once again, thank you very much.  That was helpful.

Jason