Pictured is LMH Health’s cardiac rehab team: from left, nurses Leann Dickson, Leann Towner and Kelly Kallenberger, exercise physiologist Vic White, nurses Vickie Friel and Liz Walters, exercise ...
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 ...
If you’re living with heart disease, exercise may be the last thing on your mind, but cardiac rehabilitation can help people with heart failure feel better and live longer. Heart failure can bring on ...
At Lee Health, we have a multidisciplinary team of registered nurses and exercise physiologists who help patients following heart attacks, heart surgery, coronary artery bypass, heart valve ...
Decades ago, it was assumed that age and poor heredity were the causes of heart disease. In other words, lifestyle was not on the radar screen. However, after World War II, the incidence of heart ...
Despite evidence to support the role that cardiac rehabilitation can play in improving outcomes after serious cardiac events, fewer than one in five eligible women participate—a statistic the authors ...
Velvet Spitler graduated from a cardiac rehab program in January after suffering a near-fatal heart episode while on vacation in July 2024. Initially dismissing her symptoms as heat exhaustion, she ...
At Centralus Health, a team of medical professionals are passionate about improving your well-being and empowering you to live a full, active life. When you’re referred to one of their rehabilitation ...
In this study, outcomes were investigated among a cohort of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who participated in a cardiac rehabilitation program post hospital ...
Getting patients physically active as early as 2 weeks after a sternotomy for CABG or valve surgery appears to be just as safe and effective as waiting the standard month and a half, according to ...
If you have received a cardiac stent or had heart bypass surgery, Sherry Grace, a professor at York University in Toronto and University Health Network, says the next step should be cardiac ...