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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/novel-rehabilitation-program-shows-heart-patients-prefer-to-dance/">Novel Program Shows Heart Patients can Dance</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 15, 2008 at 01:00 PM by Kathleen Blanchard</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Recent studies show that heart patients don’t take advantage of cardiac rehabilitation centers.&nbsp; Even though most programs are covered by insurance and Medicare, their use is underwhelming.&nbsp; A two-year study shows that patients who attended a formal rehabilitation program that incorporated dance routines into their program kept coming back. The results were as good as traditional exercise – the patients all experienced adequate exercise levels and the positive effects of muscle strengthening safely.&nbsp; Those who were able to exercise at the highest level performed salsa routines.&nbsp; The program offered various levels of dance – blues for warm-up and low-level exertion, rock and roll or Cuban danzón (the official dance of Cuba) for intermediate exercise, and vigorous salsa for the highest level.&nbsp; Paula V Quiroga (National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez,…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/novel-rehabilitation-program-shows-heart-patients-prefer-to-dance/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/novel-rehabilitation-program-shows-heart-patients-prefer-to-dance/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/novel-rehabilitation-program-shows-heart-patients-prefer-to-dance/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/novel-rehabilitation-program-shows-heart-patients-prefer-to-dance/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/training-programs/">training-programs</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/injury-rehab/">injury-rehab</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/music/">music</a><br /><br /> </P>