Cardiac Rehab Center

Southern Mississippi Heart Center, P.A. is pleased to announce the addition of Encore Rehab's Cardiac Rehab Center to our main office building. Our Cardiac Wellness and Rehabilitation Program is aimed at reducing the risk of development or progression of heart disease. Our physicians are dedicated to preventing heart disease. Preventive cardiology involves risk factor modification, patient education, and rehabilitation programs. This is a multidisciplinary approach to help prevent the occurrence of heart disease as well as helping to reduce the rate of progression of cardiovascular illness.

Prevention
Primary prevention involves risk factor modifications to prevent cardiovascular disease from occurring. Early intervention will reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and disease of the blood vessels.

Secondary intervention is somewhat of a later intervention after the individual has experienced an event such as a heart attack or angina. The aim of secondary prevention is to prevent the progression of cardiovascular disease and the recurrence of events. We are proud to offer a State-Of-The-Art Rehabilitation Facility located on the premises, equipped with exercise machines in addition to a highly qualified staff, including nurses, an exercise physiologist, a nutritionist, and a psychologist under the directorship of the cardiologists in our group. This multidisciplinary approach helps with affecting change in the patient's risk profile, reducing the changes of cardiovascular disease progression. The risk factors that these multi-specialty experts intervene to correct include:

1) High cholesterol
2) Diabetes
3) High blood pressure
4) Smoking cessation
5) Obesity and sedentary lifestyle
6) Uncontrolled stress or anger.