Cardiac Rehabilitation
What is Cardiac Rehabilitation?
Cardiac Rehabilitation is a customized program of excercise and education specifically designed for patients with heart disease. It includes a tailored excercise plan to help each person recover quickly and improve their overall physical and mental functioning.
If you are adjusting to life after a heart attack or living with certain other heart diseases, cardiac rehabilitation may help you feel better than you thought possible.
Who can participate in Cardiac Rehabilitation?
Cardiac Rehabilitation is an option for people of all ages and you may benefit if your medical histroy includes:
- Myocardial Infarction (Heart attack)
- Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG)
- Valve Replacements/Repairs
- Stent Placement
- Angioplasty
- Heart transplantation
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Angina (chest pain)
- Certain congenital heart diseases
Don't let advancing age hold you back from joining a cardiac rehabilitation program. Even if you're older than 65, you are just as likely to benefit from cardiac rehabilitation as your younger counterparts.
Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Most major medical insurance companies, including Medicare, will cover the cost of attending exercise sessions.
- Beginning an exercise program that is safe, effective, and appropriate for your health, age, and physical activity.
- Exercising while being supervised by an exercise physiologist.
- Exercising while wearing a heart monitor in case you have a rhythm disorder that needs medical attention.
- Monitoring of blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen saturation.
- Understanding your heart and how it works.
- Stress management.
- Preparing to return to work or previous employment.
- Modifying risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, physical inactivity, obesity and smoking.
- Free education classes covering a variety of topics including: Improving Sleep, Vitamins and Supplements, Better Balance and many more.
- Individual assessment and tailored nutrition consultations from the health educator.
- Starting a home exercise program and continuing physical activity at home.
Long-term benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation
Although it may be difficult to start a cardiac rehabilitation program when you're not feeling well, you'll benefit in the long run. The goal is to reduce the risk of another cardiac event or to keep an already present heart condition from getting worse.
One of the most valuable benefits of cardiac rehabilitation is often an improvement in your overall quality of life. You will find social support as you meet others who have gone through similar experiences.
Cardiac rehabilitation can steer you through fear and anxiety as you return to an active lifestyle, with more motivation and energy to do the things you enjoy. You're likely to come out of your cardiac rehabilitation program feeling healthier and happier than before.
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