Personalized Rehab Program Designed to Get You Back to Your Life
If you’ve experienced a recent cardiac event, such as a heart attack, open heart surgery, angioplasty or heart failure, it’s important to have support as you recover in order to stay healthy in the long run. Cardiac rehabilitation is crucial to a successful recovery. We offer a comprehensive, individualized rehabilitation services to help strengthen your heart muscle and ultimately reduce the risk of future events.
Exercise, Strength Building and So Much More
Patients typically attend 36 sessions over 12 weeks. Along with exercise, there is an important educational component that focuses on how to manage risk factors for heart disease and maintain a heart-healthy lifestyle. One of the goals is to instill lifelong tips and information that patients can take with them. Education topics include:
- The heart
- Heart treatments
- Behavior change
- Stress management
- Label reading
- Weight management
- Medications
- Exercise
- Risk factors
- Dining out
- Lipids
To schedule an appointment or to learn more about the Aiken Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, contact us at 803-641-3667 or wellnesscenter@usca.edu.
Joining Forces with the University of South Carolina and Mended Hearts
Our Rehabilitation Program brings together the resources of Aiken Regional Medical Centers, the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA) and volunteers from the Mended Hearts organization to provide a special healing patient experience. Among other services, patients can receive individualized help from a dietitian and a clinical psychologist, as well as employment-related assistance through a connection with South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation. Volunteers from Mended Hearts organization, who have had heart issues themselves visit patients in cardiac rehab to provide support and encouragement.
Our Team - The Aiken Regional/USCA Collaboration
Located in the USCA Wellness Center, the outpatient Aiken Cardiac Rehabilitation Program is jointly operated by Aiken Regional and USCA. Patients are supported by an exercise physiologist and supervising physician, with a nurse or paramedic always present. The students at USCA interact often with patients, checking heart rates and blood pressure and accompanying them through their day-to-day exercises. Rehabilitation programs are individualized for each patient with the goal of getting each patient get back to where they want to be.