Our program is designed to assist in the rehabilitation of America’s number one killer - heart disease.

The program provides:

• Medically supervised exercise training and rehabilitation
• Assistance in lifestyle modification for those with heart disease

You can benefit from cardiac rehabilitation if you have any of these diagnoses:

• Heart attack
• Heart surgery
• Angina
• Doctor-diagnosed heart disease
• Congestive heart failure
• Angioplasty
• Heart dysrhythmia
• Stents

The Cardiac Rehabilitation staff of Shands AGH includes:

• Medical director (cardiologist)
• Cardiac Rehabilitation nurse
• Exercise Physiologist

Benefits of cardiac rehabilitation:

• Increase in cardiovascular endurance
• Increase in muscular strength
• Increase in flexibility
• Improvement in body fat composition
• Improvement in psychological well being by decreasing anxiety and improving depression
• Decrease in symptoms of angina and symptoms associated with left ventricular dysfunction
• Decrease in blood pressure
• Improvement in lipid profile

Our program assists patients in:

• Recovery from a cardiac event
• Education of patient an family about heart health
• Outpatient sessions
• Development of healthy lifestyle changes

The Shands AGH Cardiac Rehabilitation Center is located in the HeartCare Center on the first floor. The receptionist will be able to direct you to our department.

Information

For more information about the Shands AGH Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, please call 352.733.0150.

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