In recent decades, medicine is being promoted as a region of Rehabilitology - the science of rehabilitation (after injury, operations, diseases).

   In Ukraine, opening rehabilitation centers, clinics, introduced a variety of techniques, are specialists in different directions.

   In Kiev, open, unique in its kind, the clinic "Alfa Medica" dealing with the rehabilitation of cardiac patients, including patients undergoing heart surgery. Rehabilitation of cardiac patients - a fairly new area and only specialist clinics to develop modern methods and approaches to restore, strengthen and normalize body systems after such operations as: aorto-coronary bypass surgery, stenting, etc.

   Cardiac rehabilitation - a set of activities carried out under medical supervision, to prompt and efficient recovery, strengthening and maintenance of the organism to the highest possible level of activity.

    In cardiological rehabilitation clinic has 2 direction:

   1. Rehabilitation in the conservative treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system (ischemic, hypertensive heart disease, angina, heart attack, heart disease, etc.).
   2. Rehabilitation after surgical treatment (CABG, etc.).

    Cardio rehabilitation is divided into: preoperative and postoperative.

 The postoperative period depends on the time of the operation:

 1 period - early (5-14 days),

 2 period  - the main (from 14 days to 2 months),

 3 Period - late (after 2 months).

   On admission to the department consulted a rehabilitation, a cardiologist and, if necessary, other specialists. Assigned rehabilitation program with all the individual characteristics (gender, age, main and concomitant diseases, personal wishes)

   When discharged, the patient receives a series of recommendations for further rehabilitation at home.

    Are the following rehabilitation measures:

      -physiotherapy (LH),
      -exercise treadmill,
      -the rise of the stairs and (or) step,
      -training on the bicycle ergometer,
      -massage,
      -relaxation, autogenic training,
      -inhalation,
      -pressotherapy.