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Cardiac Care |
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Cardiac care refers to the treatment plan for someone recovering from a heart attack or bypass surgery or experiencing abnormal heart rhythms or high cholesterol. Specialized cardiac care for people with heart disease can reduce the risk of subsequent heart attacks and death from other causes.
Types of cardiac care are nutritional counseling, smoking cessation, psychosocial interventions, physical activity counseling, exercise training, and management of lipid levels, hypertension, weight and diabetes.
Learning to live with heart disease usually requires lifestyle modifications. Diet considerations and exercise—combined with education about heart disease in general and your particular condition—are the focus of cardiac rehabilitation.
A dietitian will review your diet and explain the better choices for your heart. Physical therapists will start you on exercises, slowly at first and building up as you become more fit. A nurse will teach you about your medications and their side effects, and you will learn how to take your pulse and how to evaluate your level of exertion.
You will also learn how to use tools or assistive devices for dressing and bathing while recovering from your surgery. At all times, the nurses will confer with your cardiologist and adjust your treatment as you progress.
For more information about physical therapy, visit Aegis Therapies at www.aegistherapies.com.
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