One Persian Nerd

I can tell you from personal experience that sitting in the cardiac intensive care waiting room is a very frightening experience. Being the patient can’t be much better. It’s not something anyone wants to repeat. Heart rehab is a good way to avoid a repeat performance in the following ways:

Explaining the Disease: Knowing what is going on is important. The last time most people studied anatomy and physiology was high school or college. Cardiovascular disease is a scary phrase, and a serious problem. There are several things that could cause it, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are three. Understanding what the disease process can be is necessary.

Designing a Personal Exercise Program: When you have problems with your heart, care has to be taken with many areas of your life, and exercise is one. A good rehab program will work with your doctors to make sure you don’t exercise too hard..or too little. read more »