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 ...

February is National Heart Month, and KGET is bringing you tips to keep your heart happy and healthy with help from Dignity Health Mercy and Memorial Hospital. We spoke ...

Tom Bednarek and Al Ashford work out on the bike as Charles Majikes and Don Burke walk on the treadmill at the Saxton Medical Pavilion in Edwardsville. Aimee Dilger/the times leader Making hearts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic and progressive cardiovascular condition associated with significant morbidity, mortality and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardiac rehabilitation or cardiac rehab is an individualized, supervised exercise program for outpatients who have undergone either some type of heart surgery, like a heart bypass operation or a valve ...

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 ...

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 ...