Cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation aims to help you recover from a cardiovascular event — such as a heart attack or heart failure — or other debilitating heart condition. This recovery process usually involves physical therapy, exercise and education to rebuild and maintain your heart strength.
Heart rehabilitation services
Cardiac rehabilitation helps you grow stronger after a severe heart issue.
In Western North Carolina, Mission Health Physicians' cardiac rehabilitation physicians get you back to health following life-threatening heart events. We empower and help you reach a healthy lifestyle through diet counseling, supervised exercise and stress management tools.
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Conditions treated with cardiac rehabilitation
At our practices, specialists use heart therapy to support a variety of cardiac conditions and treatments, including:
- Balloon angioplasty
- Chronic heart failure
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Coronary stenting
- Heart attack
- Peripheral artery disease (PAD)
Our cardiac rehabilitation programs
After heart surgery or a heart attack, we offer a number of options that get you back to your routine, at a pace you can manage.
Your heart therapy team
When seeking rehabilitative care for a heart complication, you'll have access to an interdisciplinary team and the full resources our of family of practices. Our teams specialize in strengthening your body after invasive surgeries, such as balloon angioplasty, or chronic conditions, such as heart failure. When formulating and implementing a personalized care plan, your team of providers may include:
- Cardiac nurses
- Cardiologists
- Emotional support specialists
- Family members and friends
- Mental wellness specialists
- Physical therapists
- Registered dieticians
- Occupational therapists
- Pharmacists
- Physical therapists
Benefits of cardiac therapy
Your care plan may begin in a hospital and continue in our offices for outpatient services. At each stage of care, we prepare you for the next by building your heart's strength and helping gain relief from persistent symptoms, while reducing your risk for future issues and increasing your ability to comfortably perform daily activities.
Our programs empower you to manage your condition and maximize your overall wellness through individualized rehabilitation, combined with the following:
- Education about healthy diet and exercise habits
- Medication management
- Stress management tools