Step 7. Focus on working the muscles around the collar bone area with chest lifts. Sit in a straight-back chair. Place your hands behind you and hold onto the sides of the chair back to feel a stretch across your chest. Lift your chest while slightly arching your back and hold the lift for a count of two.
This is the side that pumps blood to the body. The heart's lower chamber, called the left ventricle, cannot pump blood as well. It's called systolic because your ventricle doesn't squeeze forcefully enough during systole, which is the phase of your heartbeat when your heart pumps blood. Tests may show a low ejection fraction. This means that your left ventricle isn't working as well as normal.
When the heart is actively beating, âsystoleâ occurs. That's when blood flows from the heart and into the arteries. When blood is being actively pushed into the arteries during systole, the pressure in the arteries increases. The peak blood pressure during cardiac contraction is called the systolic blood pressure. A condition called isolated systolic hypertension occurs when the systolic pressure rises to 140 mm Hg or above and the diastolic pressure remains below 90 mm Hg. Isolated systolic hypertension usually affects older people and is the result of a very clear and known disease process somewhere else in the body.