Heart Failure
Heart failure program implementation
CardioPulmonary Rehabilitation.
The cost of learning these programs with the step-by-step, online-rehabilitation-training, online-health-coaching, and program manuals, are "FREE" with your Doctor's Referral to a rehabilitation agency, physical therapy outpatient clinic, skilled / assisted living facility or home care agencie near you. See the clinic map for locations, or contact us to implement programs in an agencie, facility or clinic near you: http://www.rehabsys.com/clinic-map
Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure (CHF), is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. The heart keeps pumping, but not as efficiently as a healthy heart. Usually, the loss in the heart's pumping action is a symptom of an underlying heart problem.
As the only major cardiovascular disease increasing in incidence and prevalence, congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major health threat. Progression of the disease often leads to severe disability and requires intensive medical and psychological management.
An estimated 5.7 million Americans are living with heart failure, and 670,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Physical medicine professionals are having a positive impact by teaching and optimally restoring functional independence to heart failure patients within individual potentials. Professionals and patients working together are making necessary changes in diet, exercise and lifestyle modifications to prevent secondary complications in order to produce the highest possible quality of life.
Heart failure rehabilitation can improve a patient's functional ability, alleviate activity-related symptoms, improve quality of life, restore and maintain physiological, psychological, and social status.
At Rehabilitation Systems, we have the combined expertise from our multidisciplinary team to lead the way in Heart Failure Rehabilitation program development and implementation for restorative professionals and their patients.
Key Features
- Disease management training and education
- Signs and symptoms recognition with appropriate response patterns
- A continuum of restorative service from inpatient to outpatient to the home setting.
- Individualized treatment plans with online health coaching
- Webinars on medications, activity, weighing, nutrition, & stress management
- Lifestyle modification with secondary prevention planning
Program Outcomes
- Improve cardiac output and myocardial contractility
- Achieve optimal fluid and sodium balance
- Education appropriate for understanding CHF pharmaceutical regimen
- Improve patient self-management through aggressive patient/family education and empowerment
- Reduce cycle of hospital admissions and overall cost of care for patients with CHF
- Maximize functional independence
- Improve quality of life
For heart failure patients who cannot attend a heart failure rehabilitation program:
Rehabilitation Systems offers a unique online heart failure rehabilitation training program, developed to serve patients seeking their own program. Scientifically-based restorative principals and practices fill your training program, organized to create a pathway to increased independence, skills for living, and quality of life. This is a 12 session training program with online-health-coaching to strengthen your learning and performance process.
This emerging approach to serving the restorative needs of a growing patient population at home, in skilled-, assisted-, and independent living facilities, community centers, and the like, is accomplished with a computer and an internet connection.
Plan to join us online for this 12 session heart failure rehabilitation training program. Please don’t forget to invite a friend to join you for this life changing process, as you gain more control of your health. In this way you will build your own support system for on-going success.
Online rehabilitation classes are conducted Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in one hour sessions, for three (3) weeks. As part of this program, online health coaching helps you with technical issues, answers your health questions and walks you step-by-step through your rehabilitation program.
What will you get with this program?
You will receive two downloadable manuals. In one you will learn the process of rehabilitation, including personal assessment and evaluation, how to progress safely, techniques to help you avoid or survive complications, how to use your equipment more effectively, and other topics.
The second manual will assist you in goal setting, building a personal health history, and developing a diary of your medications.
Over three weeks you will begin a process that has proven to restore physical ability, fortify you’re efforts to manage the complications of heart failure and develop skills for living optimally.
Exercise equipment used in our training program is very simple and can be used in any setting. You can do this program with a small amount of equipment. In fact, you may have many of the tools or resources available right now. Click here for a list of equipment in our gym.
