You need not face heart disease alone. Cardiac rehab is a collective team
effort. You will partner with
doctors, nurses, pharmacists – plus family and friends – to take charge of the choices,
lifestyle and
habits that affect your heart. Cardiac rehabilitation programme at Malabar Hospital doesn’t
change
your past, but it can help you improve your heart’s future.
The aim of cardiac rehabilitation includes
launching a plan to help you regain strength, prevent your condition from worsening, reduce
your risk
of future heart problems, and improve your health and quality of life. Research has found
that cardiac
rehabilitation programs can reduce your risk of death from heart disease and reduce your
risk of future
heart problems
Cardiac rehabilitation (also called cardiac rehab) is a customized and
personalized program of exercise
and education designed to help in the recovery of over-all physical/ mental/ social health
of any
person who is suffering from heart disease.
Cardiac rehab is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "The sum of activity and
interventions required to ensure the best possible physical, mental, and social conditions
so that
patients with chronic or post-acute cardiovascular disease may, by their own efforts,
preserve or
resume their proper place in society and lead an active life". In addition to its benefits
for improving
quality of life; several studies have shown that this programme reduces further
hospitalizations and
mortality by around 30-50%!
India is among the top countries in the world, in the number of heart disease
patients and mortality.
Compared to the western societies, our rates of cardiac diseases and death keeps increasing
even if
medical technology is progressing. Recurrent heart attacks progressively damage the heart,
increases
medication load and puts an increasing financial and social burden on the patient.
Even though
excellent medications and development in coronary angioplasty and cardiac surgery have
progressed
immensely; this is often not enough for our society. Additionally, many of these
interventions are
expensive and often do not treat the root cause of progressive heart disease. Cardiac rehab
provides
a low-cost therapeutic strategy to prevent further cardiac events, prevent further
angioplasty/surgery
and to reduce your medication load- which is the optimal strategy to tackle Coronary artery
disease
in India. The SAHRUDAYA programme aims to provide this to oursociety
Any patient who has been started on cardiac medications or undergone cardiac procedures
(angioplasty/surgery). This includes the entire spectrum of coronary artery disease,
valvular heart
disease, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure and adults with congenital heart disease.
The aim for
these patients is to bring them to the normal working society with a renewed confidence
of reducing
future cardiac risk and reducing long term financial expenses spent for cardiac
care.
(Graded customized exercise and weight training /Yoga)
(Psychosocial advice and stressreduction)
(Personalized dietary advise and lifestyle habits)
(Reducing medication load and advise on medical finance
Delivery of the core components requires expertise from a range of different professionals.
Returning to good physical health and body condition is the key to rehabilitate as well as prevent further cardiac events for people. The most important complaint that any person after a heart attack may have is “I can walk/work/do things as I used to before”.
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Any patient after a heart attack or after undergoing a going a cardiac procedure would ask 1 single question to all his doctor – “What should I eat from now onwards”.
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After a heart event, it is normal to feel a mixture of emotions, like anger, frustration and feeling sad. Feeling confused and isolated after a heart event is very common and can have a major effect on you and your loved ones
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Modern preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation programmes, appropriately adapted to medical and cultural settings, have the potential to effectuate a healthier lifestyle, better risk factor control and adherence with cardioprotective medication.
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The cardiologist will review the entire cardiac rehab programme and will finally make a complete prescription for the patient; which includes a concise combination of medical, exercise-related, dietrelated and stress-related; and further address other needs of the patient.
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SAHRUDAYA Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology Programme.
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