Heart Failure and Exercise For Medical Professionals - Heart 2 Heart Cardiac physiotherapy

Heart Failure and Exercise For Medical Professionals

There’s never been a better time to upskill and boost your education in Heart Failure Rehabilitation. This webinar is hosted by Karen Cradock, the owner of Heart2Heart Physiotherapy, which is one of the very few cardiac rehabilitation clinics in the country. Heart2Heart is offering a completely FREE webinar session which will give you a grounding in exercise prescription for heart failure clients and allow you to sample our full Cardiac Physiotherapy workshop that we will be hosting online on Saturday 2nd of November at 10am.

About The Webinar

Who Can Benefit From This Webinar?

Exercise and Health Care professionals working with patients/clients with heart failure, clients who have heart failure. 

The pathophysiology of heart failure

How this impacts on exercise capacity

How to prescribe exercise for heart failure patients/client

Years in The Business

Happy Clients

Offered Courses

Our Services

We Specialize In

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac Rehab should be happening at all stages of life but particularly after a cardiac event eg a heart attack.

POTS

POTS is an abnormal increase in heart rate that occurs after sitting or standing up. It is most common in women aged between 15 years and 50 years.

Heart Surgery Cardiac Rehab

Heart surgery is an invasive procedure and can take a little longer than you think to recover from.

KAREN CRADOCK, CLINICAL LEAD

Karen Cradock

Karen is a specialist cardiac physiotherapist and was pioneer of heart failure rehabilitation services in St. Vincent's.  She completed a research masters in 'Exercise and Heart Failure'. She has worked in Cardiac Rehabilitation for over 20 years in Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

SHAUNA DOWLING, ADMINISTRATOR

 

 

 

 

Shauna Dowling

 

Shauna is the administrator for the practice.  She brings a wealth of experience in customer care and management from her previous role as a dental nurse and as well as manager in the retail sector.  She will help you along your journey with Heart 2 Heart managing your clinic appointments and accounts.  Her creative eye can be seen in our website, newsletters and social media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valerie McGinty

 

Valerie works on the team as physiotherapy assistant.  She brings a lot of experience to the team in relation to client care bringing a lot of experience from the hospitality and healthcare sector. She  is well placed to help you on your experience within the Heart 2 Heart clinic. Her attention to detail brings an enhanced dimension to your care.

Since joining the team at Heart 2 Heart Valerie has completed her  QQI level 5 training in exercise and fitness.  She will be guiding you through your exercise training sessions. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VALERIE MCGINTY, PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSISTANT

SUZANNE SEERY, CLINICAL DIETITIAN

 

 

 

Suzanne Seery

Suzanne qualified as a registered dietitian in 2007 from Leeds Beckett University, UK and completed a Masters by research in sports nutrition from the University of Limerick in 2015. She has worked as a clinical dietitian across a range of acute medical specialities including; cardiothoracic surgery, diabetes, cardiology, stroke, critical care and respiratory medicine at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.  She held the position of lead dietitian with Croi Heart and Stroke foundation from 2017 - 2020, specialising in cardiovascular health and obesity management. She has  worked as senior dietitian with the stroke and cardiology teams at Galway University Hospital. She currently works in the HSE, with a national team, developing community services for people living with chronic conditions. Suzanne is very passionate about empowering individuals to improve their health and quality of life through nutrition therapy and education.

 

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“After the trauma of a heart operation, I decided to enrol in Heart2Heart rehab sessions at Killashee Leisure Centre. I found these to be invaluable in helping me back towards former fitness levels.”

Tom Ryan

Heart2Heart

“Improve my heart health greatly and restore my confidence under the professional care and supervision of Karen.”

Noel

Heart2Heart

“Was very shocked to find that I’d had Heart “incident”, and took it as a warning. Things that I’d promised myself over the last 15 to 20 years about living a healthier lifestyle”

Tony Hall

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