Cardiac Rehabilitation Johannesburg
Your heart is a pump. Its job is to drive blood through your blood vessels, delivering oxygen to your tissues and removing waste products. This process is fundamental to life, which makes the health of your heart directly linked to the quality and length of your life.
Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death globally, but much of the risk is modifiable. Understanding what affects your heart health, and what you can actively do about it, is the starting point.
What puts your heart at risk?
The major risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, family history, and age. Cholesterol deserves a closer look. Excess LDL (“bad cholesterol”) accumulates on artery walls, narrows the arteries, and significantly increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
How exercise helps the heart
Regular aerobic exercise lowers blood pressure, reduces LDL cholesterol, improves insulin sensitivity, and helps maintain a healthy weight. A minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week is the baseline recommendation for heart health. Exercise works alongside medication, not as a replacement for it.
What cardiac rehabilitation with a biokineticist looks like
After a cardiac event, returning to exercise needs to be carefully supervised. At JW Bio, cardiac rehabilitation patients are assessed thoroughly before any programme begins. We set achievable goals, monitor your response to exercise, and progress the programme carefully over time. Both individual sessions and small group classes are available.
A home exercise programme is typically prescribed alongside supervised sessions, because the cumulative effect of regular daily movement produces lasting cardiovascular improvement.
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