The basic principle of EECP treatment involves increasing the amount of blood returning to the heart, which helps supply more oxygen to its starved areas. With more oxygen available, the heart can function much more efficiently and therefore reduce chest pain.

While EECP is performed, you will be lying on a bed wearing a series of pressure cuffs around calved, lower thighs and upper thighs. The EECP system includes a pressure source that inflates and deflates these cuffs, the pressure moves the blood from your lower limbs toward the heart. Each wave of pressure is timed with your heartbeat via ECG signal. So that the increased blood flow is delivered to your heart at the precise moment when heart relaxing. When the heart pumps again, the pressure in cuffs is withdrawn immediately. This lowers resistance in your legs so that blood pumped more easily from the heart.

EECP can increase blood supply of coronary artery by increasing the diastolic pressure of aorta, rescue ischemic myocardium and improve the heart function.