What is Cardiac Rehabilitation

  Cardiac rehabilitation is an emerging interdisciplinary discipline, which is both a branch of cardiovascular medicine and an extension of rehabilitation medicine, and has now become an important part of the cardiovascular disease treatment system. In other words, on the basis of regular drug and surgical treatment for patients with various types of cardiovascular diseases, emphasis is placed on the therapeutic role of non-drug treatment for the disease, mainly through guiding patients with cardiovascular diseases to form a correct lifestyle, including scientific exercise, psychological regulation and guidance, healthy diet, weight control, smoking cessation and other aspects of measures, emphasizing the whole process of medical guidance and care given to patients with cardiovascular diseases to prevent cardiovascular events, prolong life expectancy, and improve the quality of life of patients.