Caring For Your Heart - Free Virtual Heart Recovery and Self Care Awareness Programme

 

What is heart recovery?

Heart recovery is an important process to healing your heart . It is for people who have had a heart event, procedure or diagnosed heart condition. Cardiac rehabilitation provides you and your family with education, information, physical activity and social support, helping you make essential changes to your lifestyle so you can return to as normal a life as possible.

Benefits of cardiac rehabilitation
•    Reduce your chance of having another cardiac event
•    Decrease complications
•    Improvement in symptoms
•    Improve quality of life
•    Improve your confidence to self care
•    Improvement in mental wellbeing

Cardiac rehabilitation doesn’t change your past, but it can help you improve your heart’s future. Every little step you take towards your heart health helps make a long term difference.

FREE 4 WEEK PROGRAMME
The free Cardiac Rehabilitation and Self Care Awareness Programme is run weekly for four weeks and you can start anytime.

Topics include:
•    The function of the heart
•    Cardiac risk factors
•    Medication
•    Emotional wellbeing
•    Nutrition
•    Tailored exercise programme

We also provide weekly consults with the programme facilitator, where you have an opportunity to discuss any questions you may have about each week’s topics.

 

Programme:
•    Learn at your own pace
•    Learn from other’s success stories
•    You don’t have to leave your home
•    Watch when you can and as many times as you need to
•    Resources provided

 

Who should attend? Anyone who has a heart condition.
How do I join? A referral from a GP, cardiac team or self referral.

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For more information about attending a cardiac rehabilitation programme please speak to your health provider or call one of the numbers below.

 

Clinical Nurse 027 272 5605
Exercise Consultant 027 264 9914

 

For more information contact:
Whanganui Regional Health Network
100 Heads Road - Gate 3
Phone: (06) 348 0109
Email: info@wrhn.org.nz