Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An exercise protocol that combined high-intensity interval training and intensive lower-extremity resistance ...

After treatment for a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, a patient’s personal recovery goals are usually simple yet extremely meaningful. Some say, “I’d like to be able to walk up the stairs ...

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 ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) gain clinical benefit from exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation without experiencing a rise in serious adverse events, according to a contemporary look at the ...

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 ...

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) reduces hospitalization and mortality and improves quality of life for patients with cardiovascular disease. Despite its benefits, only 24 percent of eligible patients in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medically complex stroke survivors who completed a comprehensive yet modified cardiac rehabilitation program had 76% lower odds of dying within a year than their peers who had usual care, ...

Medicare covers cardiac rehabilitation for specific qualifying conditions when deemed medically necessary. Coverage includes conditions like heart attack, coronary artery bypass surgery, stable angina ...