A substantial body of evidence holds that cardiac rehabilitation programs can benefit people who have had a heart attack or undergone heart surgery, improving their physical fitness and reducing ...

Getting regular exercise not only reduces a person's risk of heart disease, it can increase the chance of survival if a heart attack does happen, compared to people who aren't in very good shape ...

It wasn’t until the mid-1960s that thinking changed about rehabilitating the heart with exercise. Here's why cardiac rehab is massively important.

Cardiac rehabilitation is an exercise and wellness program that helps patients become healthy again after they’ve had heart-related problems like heart attack, angina, or after having a heart ...

Treatment plans are designed around individual risk factor and exercise assessments aimed at reducing the chance of further heart events and improving physical fitness, according to the hospital.

Melissa Tracy, MD, a cardiologist and cardiac rehabilitation specialist at Rush, helps many patients with heart failure learn to exercise safely and improve their health.

Fitness Heart Smarts A physical therapist or trainer can help you custom-design an exercise program. Or your doctor might recommend a cardiac rehab program to teach you how to exercise safely.

Stroke survivors who participated in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation experienced improvements in CV endurance, strength and mobility, according to data published in the Journal of the ...

The sound of an exercise bike whirrs nearby and next to it, an elderly lady pulls at the handle of a rowing machine. A grey-haired man pumps iron hand weights as he laughs with a woman who climbs ...

Then they would implement a multi-level approach to cardiac rehabilitation, which includes exercise, nutritional counseling and management of weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and smoking.

The cardiac rehab staff was more than accommodating. Goal setting is an integral part of the cardiac rehab program, said Colleen Daubert, the program’s exercise physiology coordinator. A nurse ...

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, or AF for short, finds a pooled data ...