Can you exercise with Holter monitor？

If you are undergoing a heart health check, your doctor might have fitted you with a heart monitor, also called a Holter monitor or ambulatory ECG monitor. Your doctor will be expecting you to wear it for several days or even a week while continuing with your daily life and you might wonder what exactly you can and cannot do while wearing it.

In theory, an ambulatory ECG monitor is designed to be worn while you go about your life and carry on with your daily activities. However, in practice, there are certainly many activities that might cause detachment of the patches or even damage to the monitor. First of all, you cannot shower, take a bath or swim with a traditional holter monitor as these devices are not waterproof or even water resistant. If you are looking for a better way to continuously monitor your ECG, Plus1Health offers a way to do so. It is water and sweat resistant and it can removed for a shower or bath without the need for a professional fitting. This is something traditional holter monitors simply cannot do.

Although your doctor might allow you to exercise while wearing a heart monitor, you should be aware that frequent movement and perspiration might loosen the adhesives and pull away the patches and hence compromise the quality of the recorded ECG trace, making it hard or impossible to perform diagnosis of the test. Also, as traditional cardiac event monitors cannot be removed during the testing period, so taking a shower or bath after a workout is not possible.

If being active during your heart health check is important to you and you want to continue enjoying your daily life without the restrictions imposed by traditional Holter monitors, Plus1Health offers all the benefits and advantages of a modern, innovative continuous ECG monitoring. Plus1Health ECG Patch doesn’t require any skin preparation, also can doesn’t use wires or patches, is sweat proof and can be removed and placed back easily, which means there is no need to worry about what you can and cannot do while looking after your.

Here is a free ECG monitor app— AFibCheck, it is simple and convenient to operate,which can be downloaded and used after searching in the mobile app store.