As manager of Baystate Medical Center's cardiac rehabilitation and wellness program, Heidi R. Szalai is in the business of keeping hearts healthy, especially ones that have undergone repair, through ...

Researchers have found that patients who have completed cardiac rehabilitation and who receive telephone counseling that supports exercise are more likely to adhere to an exercise program. Researchers ...

Athletes have been enjoying the benefits of creatine supplements to gain stronger muscles since the 1990s, and the supplement has also proven beneficial among other groups. Could it help cardiac ...

September 27, 2011 (Cleveland, Ohio) — A simple exercise program tailored to the patient's functional limits can improve the survival prognosis for patients with abnormal heart-rate recovery (HRR), ...

Stroke survivors who completed a cardiac rehabilitation program focused on aerobic exercise significantly improved their ability to transition from sitting to standing as well as in how far they could ...

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 ...

Following treatment for cardiovascular disease, the road to recovery starts with a cardiac rehabilitation program like the one offered at the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living. Patients with qualifying ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stroke survivors who participated in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation experienced improvements in CV ...

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 ...

Exercise physiologist Courtney Conners checks Mario Oikonomides’ vital signs before his cardiac rehab workout. (Francis Ying/KHN) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mario Oikonomides credits a massive heart ...

The sound of an exercise bike whirs nearby. Next to it, an elderly woman pulls at the handle of a rowing machine. A gray-haired man pumps iron hand weights as he laughs with a woman who climbs onto an ...