Cardiopulmonary & Vascular Rehabilitation
Helping you recover safely.
Your recovery journey is taken care of with us.
Overview
St. Luke’s offers medically supervised rehabilitation programs to help you safely improve your health and reduce the severity of symptoms. Our cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation programs use modern exercise equipment and telemetry monitoring, a technique that enables continuous tracking of your heartbeat. While in our state-of-the-art fitness facilities, you wear a telemetry device with electrodes attached to your chest as you exercise and the device measures your vital signs and projects them on a screen that the staff monitors. They guide you on whether you should increase or decrease the intensity of your workout for maximum benefit. In this way, you learn what activity level is safe for you inside and outside of the gym. Your physician also has access to your results as you exercise. Our programs also provide education about other ways to improve your health.
Services we offer
Cardiac rehabilitation
St. Luke's Cardiac Rehabilitation (Rehab) is a medically supervised outpatient telemetry-monitored exercise and risk factor education program. The program is designed for patients recovering from heart disease, especially those who have congestive heart failure or stable angina, have recently suffered a heart attack or have undergone cardiac surgery or cardiac stenting. Besides exercise, our Cardiac Rehab allows you to regain your physical, emotional and nutritional health. St. Luke's Cardiac Rehab staff has the skills and experience to meet your individual needs and goals. With several locations, there is sure to be one near you.
Cardiac rehabilitation services include:
- Cardiac risk factor evaluation and outcomes assessment
- Educational classes on nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation and stress management
- Goal-oriented telemetry monitored exercise
- Medical supervision
- A multi-disciplinary team of cardiac doctors, nurses, exercise physiologists and physical therapists
- Informal support of others who have had a similar event
VIDEO
St. Luke’s Cardiac Rehab Center
Struggling after a heart attack, surgery, stenting, or heart failure? St. Luke's Cardiac Rehab can help! We offer multiple convenient locations with expert programs designed for your specific needs. Get ready for a sneak peek inside St. Luke's Cardiac Rehab in our next Wellness 101 episode!
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) exercise therapy
St. Luke’s patients peripheral artery disease (PAD) exercise therapy is for people with PAD, a circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs, causing muscular pain or fatigue on exertion. The pain typically occurs in the calf muscle during exercise or activity and is relieved with a short period of rest.
Our PAD Exercise Therapy program includes:
- PAD risk factor evaluation and counseling
- Medically supervised, goal-oriented exercise programs
- Health and wellness education
- Educational classes on exercise, nutritional habits, smoking cessation and relaxation
- State-of-the-art fitness facilities
- Multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, physical therapists, and exercise physiologists
Pulmonary rehabilitation
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a medically supervised program that includes exercise training, health education and breathing techniques for people with certain lung conditions or lung problems due to other conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cardiovascular disease. We aim to improve your lung function, reduce symptom severity and improve quality of life.
Studies show that pulmonary rehab can improve your quality of life, reduce your symptoms and create a sense of well-being and optimism about your future. Our team will provide education and counseling support as you adjust your lifestyle. We help you develop sustainable, healthy exercise, nutrition and weight management habits, so you resume your activities and reduce your risk of future pulmonary problems.
Benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation include:
- Better control of your breathing problem
- Increased strength and stamina (energy)
- Increased ability to care for yourself
- Decreased breathlessness
- Fewer hospital visits
- Improved quality of life
