Cardiac Rehab & Heart Recovery in Lexington, KY

Cardiac Rehab is an exercise program designed for patients with heart disease, heart failure, different types of heart events that qualifies them for this program. It's an exercise program that incorporates diet, exercise, smoking cessation, medication adherence, encompasses all those things. That way we can teach patients how to live a heart healthy lifestyle after a heart event. In order get into cardiac rehab, you have to have what's called a qualifying diagnosis.

Bypass surgery, valve replacement repair, chronic systolic heart failure with an ejection fraction less than thirty five percent, a heart attack, a stent, angioplasty, those are some of the types of diagnosis that would qualify for cardiac rehab.

Cardiac rehab is extremely important. I've been in this program for almost twelve years and I can count numerous times where we have intervened to save a patient's life. Whether that's finding a medication that they should have been taking and they haven't been, giving them the appropriate education that they needed, teaching them and breaking down the barriers that they have with exercise.

We're able to really change a patient's life from day one to session thirty six and they're a completely different person. Not only have they had the education that they need to move forward to improve their quality of life, but they built the confidence to do it on their own.