Cardiac rehabilitation: a workbook for use with group programmes

The material covered in this book arose from the Cardiac Rehabilitation work that has been carried out in Gloucestershire over the past fifteen years. The aim is to minimize the planning and preparation time involved in setting up and delivering a CR programme and to present the relevant information and techniques in a way that can be used confidently by a number of different health professionals. The bulk of the book is made up of session plans for the seven weeks over which the CR programme is run. The exercise programme is outlined in detail and could potentially be delivered as a series of stand-alone sessions. Similarly the education and behaviour change aspects of the programme are presented in a way that they could be used as an adjunct to an existing exercise programme. Patient handouts, such as food and exercise diaries, will be included with the sessions. In addition to the session plans two introductory chapters describe the history of cardiac rehabilitation, review the evidence for the efficacy of CR and describe the CR programme in Gloucestershire, the rationalefor the techniques and models used, and the evidence base which has been carefully developed and constantly evaluated over the last 15 years. Practical material, including client handouts will be available on a supplementary web site.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-51872-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés