A panel of experts has published guidance on safe rehabilitation exercises for cardiac patients with diabetes. The recommendations, approved by international diabetes organizations, focus on the ...

A substantial body of evidence holds that cardiac rehabilitation programs can benefit people who have had a heart attack or undergone heart surgery, improving their physical fitness and reducing ...

It wasn’t until the mid-1960s that thinking changed about rehabilitating the heart with exercise. Here's why cardiac rehab is massively important.

Cardiac rehabilitation is an exercise and wellness program that helps patients become healthy again after they’ve had heart-related problems like heart attack, angina, or after having a heart ...

Melissa Tracy, MD, a cardiologist and cardiac rehabilitation specialist at Rush, helps many patients with heart failure learn to exercise safely and improve their health.

Stroke survivors who participated in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation experienced improvements in CV endurance, strength and mobility, according to data published in the Journal of 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 ...

The sound of an exercise bike whirrs nearby and next to it, an elderly lady pulls at the handle of a rowing machine. A grey-haired man pumps iron hand weights as he laughs with a woman who climbs ...

The slow and gentle movements of Tai Chi -- which can increase in pace -- hold promise as an alternative exercise option for patients who decline traditional cardiac rehabilitation. The study is ...

An expert in cardiac rehabilitation explains how exercise can improve the outcome for people with heart failure, and how to get the most out of this program.

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 ...