Cardiologic Rehabilitation Program

It is practiced at School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. In addition to the rehabilitative assistance offered to patients recovering from a cardiac disease, it also proves to be protective for those under the risk of cardiac disease. When patients are hospitalized for angina, angioplasty or heart attack, they are registered in this program upon the request and permit of their physicians. Beginning in the hospital, this program can continue for a few months or, in certain circumstances, for a lifetime after being discharged. In addition to medical counselling, it also features as instructional, dietary and physiological counselling. There is also an exercise program practices in this context which gradually increases in order to ensure that the cardiac patient achieves the best and the safest effort capacity.