Patent ID: RE38749

Claim:
A chronotherapy exercise technique for treating a patient having an abnormal condition reflected by a reduced heart rate variability which deviates from a heart rate variability reflecting a normal condition, the technique comprising the steps of: A. continuously monitoring the heart pulse rate of the patient in the course of an exercise session during which the patient undergoes a series of exercise-relaxation cycles, the patient in an exercise phase of each cycle expending a surge of energy causing the pulse rate to rise to a peak rate above a resting rate, the pulse rate in a relaxation phase swinging down from the peak rate to a rate below the resting rate to produce a pendulum effect causing the pulse rate to rise to a higher peak rate in a succeeding cycle, the rising and falling pulse rate in the course of each cycle generating a heart wave; and B. sychronizing the time during which heart waves are generated with a wave of an internal biological clock whereby with repeated exercise sessions, the heart rate variability is induced to approach said normal variability.