New research shows that exercise-based cardiac rehab offers real benefits for people with atrial fibrillation, reducing the risk of recurrence and improving mental well-being, highlighting the need ...

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 ...

A new global analysis reveals yoga-based cardiac rehabilitation is as effective as standard methods for heart attack survivors. This approach significantly reduces hospital readmissions and improves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Ann Schau was playing her set with the Dancehall Players when she began to feel unwell. She played the final song, then drove herself to Royal Jubilee Hospital. It was about 5:30 p.m. on Nov.

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) started 2 weeks after sternotomy for a cardiac procedure was noninferior to usual care, in which CR starts 6 weeks after the procedure, with a greater improvement in ...