Congestive Heart Failure

Congestive Heart Failure

Congestive heart failure is when your heart can't pump blood around the body good like normal. Therefore, you won't have circulation and your nutrients and oxygen won't get to all the muscles and places in your body. Then you may have swelling in different areas. 

When it comes to ppl developing congestive heart failure, it may happen at a late age or earlier, the younger u are and if you're able to, u could still try exercising, doing cardio to get that heart to pump, to get it to function if it can't do it on its own.. Elderly ppl may be limited to much exercise.. Congestive heart failure can be from numerous reasons.. 

When this happens, it may cause blood to sit around in certain areas like the legs, ankles and feet, which is actually Edema. Again, it's about moving that blood around through massage and/or exercise if u can, besides medication.. Edema as well as problems with lymph nodes, can be helped through massage and/or exercise.. 

Here's a link for Mayoclinic.com that lists what it is, signs/symptoms, the causes, treatments, and etc. It mentions exercise in here still. One of the things it says to do is fix your diet, remove salt from your diet, which will help the heart not wear out from pumping it around, just like caffeine makes the heart pump harder too.. 

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-failure/DS00061