My cardiac rehabilitation experience

I just wanted to share what my experience with cardiac rehabilitation. I highly encourage everyone that has the opportunity to give it a try. It turns out that I probably did not need the formal Rehabilitation. They actually slowed me down from what I was doing prior to the rehabilitation.

But it was really a learning experience into my heart rate and BP. When I started, I was already ahead of every other person in my class. But what is so great is the encouragement that you get. I can not imagine another place where everyone would cheer when I ran my first mile… or made it 3 miles in 40 minutes. At the same time, I was giving a high five to one of my cohorts for making it her first mile. What boggles my mind is the statistics that only 20% of patients continue to exercise after rehabilitation. Crazy!!

My cardiac rehabilitation has been a good experience too. It is comforting to know that a nurse is keeping an eye on you during your workout. For me a nurse takes my blood pressure once before, once during and once after my workout. Everyone in class wears a heart rate monitor and one nurse monitors our heart rate at a computer screen.

This past Wednesday I took a stress test at my cardiologists office to help determine my target heart rate for rehabilitation. I worked out before surgery and will continue my cardio workouts too after rehabilitation. My cardiologist often comments that he would have a lot less return business if his patients would continue with exercise programs after AVR surgery. The majority of the people who were in my rehabilitation program indicated they had little interest in continuing with an exercise program after they finished cardiac rehabilitation.

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