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The purpose of this project was to examine if physiotherapy and her different types could help improve patients after myocardial infarction. The search strategy for identifying the relevant literature included information from foreign language articles, Greek and foreign literature as well as from websites. The findings from the investigated studies showed significant effectiveness in the participants in some cardiac rehabilitation program in relation to those who did not participate or applied any other method. These results were significant in cardiopulmonary capacity, quality of life, autonomic nervous system activity, left ventricular ejection fraction, functional capacity, weight reduction and in special exercise tests. Therefore, physiotherapy and her different types seem useful and beneficial in patients after myocardial infarction, however more studies are needed to get better results.