Dr. Tabak is most grateful for the love and support of his family, as well as the privilege of practicing medicine with the fine physicians and wonderful patients at Cardiovascular Medical Group. The elderly patient can safely exercise at low to moderate levels if cardiovascular changes of aging, cardiac dysfunction and co-existing morbidity are taken into account. Of course, some people should never exercise, so be sure to check with your physician first. Approximately 50 million Americans have one or more forms of heart or blood vessel disease. It lasts for 12 weeks and is covered by most insurance, the cost is variable anda physician referral is necessary.
Exercise is prescribed and closely monitored.
The patient is offered education about risk factors, cardiac signs and symptoms and self monitoring during exercise training. These services are individualized based on goals of treatment, severity of the patients underlying condition and associated medical problems and cardiopulmonary reserve capacity. A secondary exercise phase provides a supportive, safe and professionally supervised environment in which exercise sessions are monitored periodically to observe progress, and to adjust workload. This phase is not covered by insurance. Your physician will usually be able to make a diagnosis of cardiac or circulatory disease based on your history and physical examination.