Cardiac rehabilitation is indicated following a heart attack, heart surgery (stent placement, coronary artery bypass surgery, or valvular surgery) as well as for patients who chronically manage congestive heart failure or stable angina. Typical cardiac rehabilitation programs include a few components: aerobic exercise training, nutritional counseling, disease education, psychosocial support, and (if applicable) tobacco cessation. A full course includes 36 supervised aerobic exercise sessions, but cost, transportation, and wait times are often challenges to completing this course. Cardiac benefits and reduced rehospitalizations can be observed after as few as 12 sessions.
An Innovative Approach to Cardiac Recovery, Backed by Evidence.
Recora is redesigning heart health, beginning with cardiac recovery. Our services build off of extensive evidence supporting the benefits of home-based cardiac rehabilitation and clinical guidelines for the provision of exercise therapy. Click on any section below to learn more.
Recora recently published its innovative approach in a JAMA Health Forum perspective.
What is cardiac recovery and who is it for?
Studies show the majority of US patients do not participate in even a single session.
What’s the impact?
Engaging with cardiac rehabilitation can result in myriad benefits.
These programs have been demonstrated to reduce mortality, reduce all-cause hospitalizations, improve health-related quality of life, reduce cardiovascular risk factors (blood pressure, high cholesterol), and improve perceived social support.
Can people really do this at home?
Absolutely.
Home-based cardiac rehab has been both demonstrated as comparably effective and endorsed by professional societies as a comparable alternative to facility-based programs. A home-based program is both easier and safer to attend during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How is Recora effective?
Unlike most cardiac rehabilitation programs, we meet members where they are.
Our team is growing a novel value-based model to expand home-based cardiac rehabilitation and surpass payer- and patient-facing barriers to making exercise care (and even more specifically, cardiac rehabilitation programs) available to all eligible adults.
Exercise therapy benefits everyone
Exercise therapy, the modality at the center of cardiac rehabilitation, has immense value to all adults.
Recora is committed to helping our members get moving and stay moving, even after they have completed a course of cardiac rehabilitation.