Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac Rehab & Risk Factor Reduction

What is Cardiac Rehab?

Cardiac Rehab services are designed to help patients with heart disease recover faster and return to full and productive lives after a cardiac event. The program combines education and exercise. Exercise to help strengthen the entire cardiovascular system; and Education to learn how to reduce or eliminate the risk factors which contributed to the build up in the arteries. Phase 2 Cardiac Rehab is a three-time a week program for up to 36 visits per patient.

Who needs Cardiac Rehab?

Individuals who have heart disease such as angina, have had a heart attack, angioplasty, stent or open heart surgery.

Why do individuals need Cardiac Rehab?

Cardiac Rehab can make a huge difference in a patient’s life. It helps to improve the quality of living, making people stronger, helping to learn how to make wiser food choices, manage stress, quit smoking, manage diabetes, and live longer by reducing the chance of future heart problems.

A patient has to learn how to make the behavior changes that are imperative to keep the arteries open.

Will insurance cover Cardiac Rehab?

Most insurances cover Cardiac Rehab. The Cardiac Rehab staff will help the patient verify insurance coverage.

Other important facts:

20-25% reduction in cardiovascular disease mortality following participation in CR

Another study: a 10-year follow up of CR participants following a MI, 37% reduction in sudden death among patients participating in a multifactorial intervention program.

50% reduction in CVD mortality and morbidity in patients with documented CAD who became or remained active compared with those who remained sedentary

Exercise helps improve vascular tone and endothelial function