Cardiac Rehabilitation through Exercise and Walking.

CREW helps heart patients leaving hospital after a cardiac event or other heart problems such as angina,hypertension,diabetes and other pre Heart related disease who have permission from their Health Professionals to take part in structured exercises with qualified exercise and Tai Chi instructors mostly qualified at BACR levels plus walking sessions to enable them to get back to as full a life as possible.

Why the community needs this charity

Since late 1999 CREW heart support group has offered it's services to Calderdale people who have had the misfortune to suffer Heart related problems. CREW are available to ensure Cardiac Rehabilitation patients and those others at risk of Heart Disease can learn to change their lifestyles with Exercise and Walking to keep them fit and healthy and to ensure that once our formal programmes are finished, they are not alone. Our extensive social functions play a vital part in continuous after care.

Results and outcomes

CREW offer an important service to anyone across the whole of Calderdale who has a heart related problem, so that they can improve and prolong an active lifestyle. This applies to them and their carers who play a vital role in any sort of Rehabilitation.

Latest activities and projects

New Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Venues (Calder & Halifax)

Our intention at CREW is to link closely with our Exercise professionals who, along with Upbeat and the NHS, coordinate all the early cardiac rehabilitation programmes, for patients from Calderdale Royal. CREW are the voluntary sector who ensure that once patients have taken that first step to recovery an organisation will exist to make sure they can carry on with the good practises learnt,or re-learnt,for as long as they wish! This is better delivered and serviced in the local commnity. read more

Community Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise/Tai-Chi Classes

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