Book Title: Cardiac Rehabilitation
Description: The era of cardiac rehabilitation in the United States dates back at least thirty years, when Herman Hellerstein at Case Western Reserve, Andy Wallace at Duke and Ken Cooper in Dallas envisioned that a comprehensive lifestyle approach to the rehabi- tation and prevention of patients having had a cardiac event would potentially yield great benefits for the individual patient and the health care system. Until that time, the thought of vigorous exercise in the cardiac patient soon after an event was close to anathema. One of us (WEK) was introduced to Herman Hellerstein in Cleveland in the late 1960’s, when his father sought medical opinion from him for a cardiac condition. WEK was introduced to Andy Wallace in 1979 by which time the latter had started a multidisciplinary, geographically re...
Bibliographic information
Publisher(s): Springer Science & Business Media
Publish Date: 2007-07-27
Book Pages: 307
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 1588297705
Cover: External Link
Subjects: Medical / Cardiology • Medical / Clinical Medicine • Medical / Internal Medicine • Medical / Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Book Dimentions
Height: 25.40 cm
Width: 17.80 cm
Thickness: 2.50 cm
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