TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A heart attack can happen anywhere and at any time. People recovering from a heart-related incident or even a serious lung illness need proper care to get back to normal.

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 ...

For most of us, keeping our life in balance means understanding and juggling our needs and wants. But for cardiac patients and those with heart health issues, keeping balance is essential to life ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Cardiac Rehabilitation R.N. Paula Burket helps Joyce Bassler of Roaring Spring with the settings on a NuStep seated stepper. Editor’s note: John Kasun, who writes a ...

Cardiac rehab saves lives after a heart attack, heart failure, angioplasty, or heart surgery. Rehabilitation typically consists of three key components: exercise counseling and training, education for ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Following a cardiac event like a heart attack, open heart surgery, or heart failure, a patient that elects to go through a cardiac rehab program will see a 40% reduction in future ...

Less than 10% of adults with heart failure get help in a supervised cardiac rehabilitation setting, says an American Heart Association estimate. Sometimes, it’s that people don’t know this care is ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 13, 2024 – Brooke Army Medical Center Department of Cardiology has incorporated lifestyle medicine into its cardiac rehabilitation program to help ...

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 ...