Cardio Rehab

[ARTIST1950]

Attending Cardio Rehab has played such an important part in my post-op recovery. After the initial twelve sessions at Crawley Hospital, I joined the Crawley and Horsham Heart Support Group.

This amazing group meet twice a week, Wednesday and Friday. I was really surprised when I joined to find that a large number of members were in their eighties one member is ninety-five, he joined the group twenty-five years ago. I am sixty-eight and have been a member of this group for three months now, I feel fitter, healthier and inspired since joining. If you are worried about Cardio Rehab don't be it plays a vital part in your recovery.

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

As you say cardio rehab can play a very important part in recovery and going forward. The problem is that its availability and quality is very much a postcode lottery. Although I was referred nothing happened till I chased it up and then when I attended the experience was somewhat marred by a one size fits all approach and too much equipment in need of servicing/repair. I hope to start at a rehab/gym later this month. The first one I approached did not inspire any confidence and then a number of issues, including unrelated surgery, intervened!

[thetidders]

My rehab was twice a week for 12 weeks & it was an individual programme in the gym which was revised every 5 sessions. After that I progressed to cardio-fit which was held in a local gym once a week for 12 weeks supervised by someone from cardiac rehab. I finished that about 3 weeks ago & am in the process of joining the gym I used to go to before I was banned by my cardiologist after an angiogram. I have been given a copy of my last programme of exercises so that the manager at the gym can see what I am capable of doing at the moment. I have no complaints about the cardiac rehab on the Wirral, it has helped me so much.

Jean