Cardiac rehabilitation, also called cardiac rehab, is a customized outpatient program of exercise and education The program is designed to help you improve your health and recover from a heart attack, other forms of heart disease or surgery to treat heart disease
Cardiac rehabilitation is an option for people with many forms of heart disease In particular, you might benefit from cardiac rehabilitation if your medical history includes:
- Heart attack
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart failure
- Peripheral artery disease
- Chest pain (angina)
- Cardiomyopathy
- Certain congenital heart diseases
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Angioplasty and stents
- Heart or lung transplant
- Heart valve repair or replacement
- Pulmonary hypertension