If you're just recovering from a heart attack, walking on a treadmill may be the last thing you're interested in. You may feel tired and depressed and simply worried about survival - not about getting in a workout.

But exercising under the watchful eyes of your health care team through a cardiac rehabilitation program may be the ticket to survival and a better quality of life. If you're adjusting to life after a heart attack or you're living with certain other heart diseases, cardiac rehabilitation may help you feel better than you thought possible.

Cardiac Rehabilitation is a specially designed program to help patients who are recovering from a heart attack. The program is conducted in two phases to help patients slowly rebuild their physical endurance and strength, return to a daily living and working routine and maintain a nutrition and exercise program to ensure continued health benefits.

The Cardiac Rehab program is supervised by a team of health care professionals and patients are generally referred to the program by their physician. Objectives of the program are tailored for each individual patient and may vary from becoming more physically fit, to feeling better or simply wanting to get back to your daily routine.

Cardiac Rehab sessions are held three times per week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Rehabilitation Gym on the lower level of the medical center, which is well equipped to provide a wide variety of exercise options.