Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation, also called cardiac rehab, is a medically supervised program for people with heart disease who have had a heart attack, heart failure, heart surgery, heart valve surgery, coronary artery bypass grafting or percutaneous coronary intervention.

The UF Health cardiac rehab program is focused on improving heart health and involves adopting heart-friendly lifestyle changes to address risk factors for cardiovascular disease. To help you adopt lifestyle changes, our cardiac rehabilitation program includes monitored exercise training, education on heart-healthy living, and counseling to reduce stress and help you return to an active life.

Participating in the UF Health cardiac rehab program can improve your health and quality of life, reduce the need for medicines to treat heart or chest pain, decrease the chance you will return to a hospital or emergency room for a heart problem, prevent future heart problems and address your cardiovascular disease to help you live longer and better.

Cardiac rehab is provided in an outpatient clinic or in a hospital rehab center. The cardiac rehab team includes doctors, nurses, exercise specialists, exercise physiologists, physical and occupational therapists, dietitians/nutritionists and mental health specialists.

UF Health Heart and Vascular Care

UF Health Heart and Vascular Care’s team of expert cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and vascular surgeons can handle any heart problem you have, big or small. Our physicians are nationally known experts in cardiology, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery, specializing the care and treatment of heart and vascular conditions, including:

• Aortic Aneurysm Repair – minimally invasive and open
• Aortic Dissection Repair
• Aortic Valve Repair/Replacement – minimally invasive and open
• Arterial insufficiency
• Atherosclerosis
• Atrial fibrillation or flutter
• Bicuspid aortic valve
• Cardiac catheterization
• Cardiomyopathy
• Chest pain
• Congenital heart disease
• Coronary Aortic Bypass Graft (CABG bypass surgery)
• Coronary artery disease
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
• Heart Arrhythmia
• Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
• Heart Failure
• Heart Transplant
• Heart valve surgery
• Hypertensive heart disease (high blood pressure)
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Ischemic cardiomyopathy
• Left ventricular assist device (LVAD)
• MitraClip™
• Mitral stenosis
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Mitral valve surgery - minimally invasive
• Mitral valve surgery - open
• Myocarditis
• Peripheral artery disease
• Preventive cardiology
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary valve stenosis
• Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
• Thrombolytic drugs for heart attack
• Tricuspid Valve Repair/Replacement
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
• Ventricular assist devices (VADs)