Reality: Tailored exercise programs and lifestyle lessons save lives.

The patient, in his 40s, was scared. He told nurses at his cardiac rehabilitation center that he was experiencing fleeting pains in his chest around the area where doctors had recently implanted two stents to open blocked coronary arteries. The treadmill he was on wasn’t rolling fast enough for him to run. But he was walking on eggshells, afraid to stress himself because pain of any kind had become a danger signal to him.

The reality: The patient was following the safest course to recovery. Experts in rehab at his mid-sized northeast hospital monitored his heart, and knew that the mild pain was not a danger sign. After just a…

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