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What is Integrated Cardiac Rehabilitation?

Cardiac rehabilitation helps you repair your past damage and improve your heart’s future.
Cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised program designed to improve your cardiovascular health if you have experienced a heart attack, heart failure, angioplasty, or heart surgery. The following is an outline of our Integrated Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.

Who Needs Cardiac Rehabilitation?

You will need cardiac rehabilitation if you have the following.

  1. History of heart attack

  2. Recurrent chest pain and shortness of breath due to a heart condition.

  3. Bypass or heart valve surgery.

  4. Angioplasty or stent procedure

  5. Heart Failure

  6. Poor heart function.

  7. Implantation of a pacemaker or defibrillator.

CARDIAC REHABILITATION GOALS AND BENEFITS

1. Faster supervised healing
It helps you heal physically, psychologically, and emotionally. You return to work and meaningful life faster and fully.
2. Faster functional capacity improvement.
You gradually improve exercise capacity in a safe and supervised environment. You perform supervised Yoga. You improve your aerobic activity, muscle strength, flexibility, and balance.
3. Cardiovascular health improvement
Reduces your chances of future Heart attacks. Improves your longevity. Makes it easier to control and quit smoking and alcohol drinking. Improves your body weight, blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol control. Makes it easier to adjust medicines, prevents side effects, improves adherence, and takes right medicines to prevent future heart attacks.
4. Improves psychological health
Anxiety and depression are natural and common after heart attack, stents, or surgery. Cardiac rehabilitation helps find and treat clinically significant psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression early and effectively.
5. Improves quality of life
Strengthens support with friends, family, and social groups. Helps find and address adverse social determinants of health which can prove to be barriers to full recovery.
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  1. 2. Servey JT, Stephens M. Cardiac Rehabilitation: Improving Function and Reducing Risk. Am a Fam Physician. 2016 Jul 1;94(1):37-43. PMID: 27386722.
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