What is cardiac rehabilitation?

  What is cardiac rehabilitation?  Cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive treatment process designed to help you recover better from an acute myocardial infarction, heart surgery or other heart disease. Specifically, it is a comprehensive guide based on standardized professional treatment, such as exercise and diet, thus safely and effectively overcoming some complications of heart disease, reducing the risk of heart disease deterioration, helping you to regain your ability to work and participate actively in social activities, and improving your psychological regulation well. Overall, it restores your strength and confidence and enables you to live a long and healthy life.  Who needs cardiac rehabilitation?  In the past, cardiac rehabilitation was often aimed at younger patients and those who needed to return to work after heart disease or heart surgery, but nowadays, thanks to better rehabilitation procedures and close medical supervision, cardiac rehabilitation has become one of the treatments for various heart diseases. So whether you have coronary heart disease, heart failure or cardiomyopathy, or if you have undergone cardiac surgery or other treatments such as coronary artery bypass, coronary intervention or valve replacement, you can benefit from cardiac rehabilitation. Specifically, cardiac rehabilitation is available for: Acute myocardial infarction followed by coronary artery stenting followed by coronary artery bypass grafting followed by chronic heart failure in stable heart valve disease followed by cardiac pacemaker implantation followed by hypertension, hyperlipidemia diabetes and metabolic syndrome patients with other heart conditions requiring rehabilitation.