Trousers may turn out to be your heart’s unlikeliest friends, with UK scientists having developed unique vibrating pants that can help relieve patients of their angina pain.Designed by scientists at the Yokshire Clinic, these trousers enhance the blood flow to the heart and thus provide the heart with sufficient oxygen.During the treatment, called Enhanced External Counterpulsation or EECP, long inflatable cuffs, like those used to measure blood pressure, are wrapped around the patient’s calves, thighs and buttocks. These cuffs inflate and deflate with each heartbeat, pushing the blood up the leg towards the heart, while an ECG heart monitor checks the heart rate.According to Chris Morley, consultant cardiologist at the Yorkshire Clinic in Bradford which is offering EECP, this novel way holds hope for heart patients on whom conventional treatment techniques like drugs and surgery fail to work.
