The cardiac rehabilitation program assists patients physically and mentally in returning to and resuming their vocational and social roles after a cardiac event or cardiac procedure. The cardiac rehab staff assists patients and their significant other(s) in identifying and reducing personal cardiac risk factors. Our team provides education about exercise, stress reduction, cardiac and anatomy, diet, medications, cardiac risk factors, etc.
Your heart is a muscle. Like all of the other muscles in your body, it benefits from regular exercise. We provide patients with an opportunity to maximize their cardiovascular fitness by participating in a flexible, individualized and medically supervised exercise program in the cardiac rehab gym.
The team in cardiac rehab will work with you to develop an individualized exercise program for proper mode, intensity, duration, frequency and progression. The cardiac medical director reviews each cardiac rehab patient’s prescription exercise program monthly. By participating in the exercise program, you are helping to ensure that you’ll be restored to your maximum functional capacity.
Benefits of cardiac rehabilitation
Many benefits result from participating in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.
- Gradual increase in exercise tolerance
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Increased work capacity of the heart
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Diet modification through nutrition classes
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Educational classes, including stress reduction, information about body mass index, cholesterol, diabetes and strength training
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Helps control weight
Modifying your risk of heart problems with exercise
Being active also reduces stress, lowers your cholesterol and helps you lose weight. Regular exercise that increases your heart rate and breathing can reduce the risk of heart disease by increasing the oxygen requirements of the heart, increasing the tone of other muscles, and stimulating circulation. This type of exercise is called aerobic. Improvements in fitness result from moderate exercise of 15 to 30 minutes five to seven times a week.
Our pulmonary rehabilitation program is a medically supervised exercise program for patients with COPD.
Benefits of pulmonary rehab
With a physician referral, a customized 36-session rehab plan will be developed for you. Oxygen access is provided throughout the gym. Benefits of the program include:
- A decrease in shortness of breath
- Less fatigue
- Improved exercise tolerance
- Improved health-related quality of life
Patients with a COPD diagnosis can enroll with a physician referral.
