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derecuperacin en prueba de esfuerzo, con la aplicacin de los puntos "eiguan #$%&' y(!enmen #%)' en sujetos adultos sanos y no entrenados. (=>>0?@ >ost of t!e people considered p!ysicaly !ealt!y, are on a poor p!ysical condition asAell, A!ic! limits t!e practice of p!ysical exercise and t!is leads to Aorsening of t!ecardiovascular condition. Bealt! is strongly determined by t!e proper function of t!e !eart,!ence t!e practice of aerobic exercise is !ig!ly recommended.9!ere are trials about acupuncture on !eart conditions, on at!letes and on animals#p!armacological stress', but Ae didnCt find studies on !ealt!y individuals. 1ased onDnoAledge of acupuncture effects over cardiac activity, it is proposed t!at t!e applicationof acupoints "eiguan #B%&' and (!enmen #B9)' Aill produce a beneficial effect of betterexercise tolerance on !ealt!y untrained individuals.0 study Aas carried out on a group of apparently !ealt!y volunteers,men and Aomen, betAeen t!e ages of +, and -, years, untrained and under nomedication. 9!e subjects Aere randomly assigned into 8 groups, group 0 #0cupuncture'and group 1 #"o20cupoints', eac! group consisted of 3+ volunteers, t!e subjects and t!ep!ysician performing t!e stress tests Aere unaAare of t!e group t!ey Aere assigned.Endividuals on bot! groups Aere subjected initially to a stress test measuring t!e time ittooD for every person to ac!ieve t!e 4-5 of t!e maximal predicted !eart rate according toage and t!is being recorded as stress time 3#tesf3' and also evaluated t!e recovery time,in t!is case it Aas defined as t!e time it tooD to recover a !eart rate of 77 beats per min. orless #trec3'. 0fter t!is acupuncture Aas applied on acupoints "eiguan #B%&' and(!enmen #B9)' on subjects of group 0 for 8, minutes Ait! a dispersion tec!nique, and ongroup 1 needles Ait!out stimulation over "o20cupoints Aere applied for t!e same amountof time, after t!at all individuals underAent a second stress test and t!e same times Aeremeasured and recorded as stress time 8 #tesf8' and recovery time 8 #trec8'. 9!e resultst!at Aere obtained Aere added and averaged for eac! group and statistical analysis Aasperformed Ait! a %!i square test and a p/ < ,.,- Aas regarded as significative. Et Aasfound t!at subjects on group 0 needed more time to ac!ieve t!e desired !eart rate on t!esecond stress test compared to t!e first one#tesf3/ 4.8& min., tesf8/ 4.-; min.' andindividuals on group 1 tolerated less time in order to ac!ieve t!e desired !eart rate on t!esecond test #tesf3/ 4.7+ min., tesf8/ 4.&& min.'. 9!e recovery time Aas s!orter on t!esecond stress test on bot! groups, but t!e time to recovery Aas significantly s!orter ongroup 0 #trec3/ ;.+- min., trec8/ +.)& min.' t!an on group 1 #trec3/ &.,8 min., trec8/ -.)8min'. 9!e difference betAeen groups Aas statistically significant for stress time andrecovery time for group 0 over group 1 #stress time p< ,.,,3 and recovery time/ p 0 ?E0"0 >06 0LE"0 L:$EF 6:"F0LEF 0(E(:?/ ?. %?E(:G:?: :? :HE( L:$EF