Educational Resources for Patients

All resources are PDF documents

Cardiac Rehabilitation

• Advance Directives
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart
• Benefits of Exercise: How Much Is Enough?
• Benefits of Resistance Training
• Benefits of Strengthening Your Core
• Cardiac Medications
• Cardiac Testing
• Communicating with Your Physician
• Components of Exercise
• Depression and Cardiac Disease
• Diabetes Carb Counting and Meal Planning
• Diabetes Complications
• Diabetes Outpatient Education
• Diabetes Protein, Fat, Sodium, Alcohol
• Dining Out
• Equipment Safety
• Fats and Oils
• Food Labels
• Foot Care
• Footwear for Exercise
• Fruit, Vegetables and Grains
• Heart Failure
• Intimacy and Heart Disease
• Intimacy and Heart Disease (PowerPoint version)
• Long-term Exercise Planning
• Low Fat and Healthy Fat Cooking
• Making Behavioral Change Part I: Risk Factors
• Making Behavioral Change Part 2: Weight Management
• Mindfulness Practice
• Pharmacy Meds and Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Portion Distortion Part 1
• Portion Distortion Part 2
• Psychological Reactions to Heart Disease and the Family
• Red Meat, Poultry and Fish
• Risk Factors
• Stress Management
• Treatment for Chest Pain
• Weather Considerations
• Yoga for Cardiac Rehab

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Advance Directives
• Anatomy
• Antibiotics, Expectorants and Cough Suppressants
• Benefits of Exercise: Pulmonary
• Breathing Strategies
• Bronchial Hygiene
• Bronchodilators
• COPD Exacerbation and Prevention
• Energy Conservation
• Heart Failure
• How to Get the Most Out of Your Office Visits
• Intimacy and Pulmonary Disease
• Long-term Exercise
• Lung Disease
• Sleep Apnea
• Osteoporosis and Posture
• Oxygen Therapy
• Pneumococcal Handout
• Prednisone
• Pulmonary Disease and Depression
• Resistance Training Lecture
• Swallow Handout
• Tests Your Pulmonologist Might Order
• Vaccines for Pulmonary Patients
• Vitamins and Supplements