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Qustions About Heart Disease

What is Heart Disease?
Anatomy of the heart?
What is a heart attack?
What is cardiac arrest?
What is atherosclerosis?

Warning Signals
Heart attack
Heart attack and women
Cardiac arrest
Heart attack myths

Prevention of Risk Factors
Diabetes
High blood cholesterol
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Being overweight
Excessive alcohol consumption
Physical inactivity
Smoking
Stress
Risk Factors you can't control
Women's unique risk factors

 
Heart disease
 

 


First steps
in living with heart disease:
get the information to help you take control
 

Psychotherapy & Clinical Work

Upcoming Workshops
- Eleven Heart Widsoms
- Heart/Body Drawings
- HeartPrints
- Coping Strategies
- Trauma/Healing Drawing
- Natalistic Art
- Survivors Group for Men
- Workshop List and Dates

Background Information
Michael C. Irving, Ph.D.
Psychotherapy
Curriculum Vitae
Workshops
 Lectures
Cheryl Irving, B.A.
CV/Degrees
Professional Affiliations
Professional Supervision
Workshops and Trainings

Self Help Program
- Overview/Introduction
Coping Strategies
- Grounding
- Containment
- Self Nurture
- Personal Support
- Art as Healing
Creating Coping Lists
- Coping Lists
- Activities
- Boundaries
- Stress
- Crisis

Art in Healing

Survivor Monument Project
-Monument Home Page
-Meditation Gallery
-Information on Child Abuse
-Monument Story (Flash Movie)
-A Healing Monument
-Monument Poetry/Art Books

 

 

Emergency Care/CPR
AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators)
CPR courses
CPR training

Heart Disease Conditions
Angina
Arrhythmia
Atherosclerosis
Cardiomyopathy
Congenital heart disease
Congestive heart failure
Coronary artery disease
Heart block
Infective (bacterial) endocarditis
Kawasaki disease
Long QT Syndrome
Marfan Syndrome
Pericarditis
Rheumatic heart disease
Valve disorders

Tests
Angiography/arteriography
Blood and urine
Cardiac catheterization
Chest X-ray
Doppler ultrasound
Echocardiogram
Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
Electrophysiology Studies (EPS)
Exercise electrocardiogram (stress test)
Holter or event monitoring
Physical exam
Thallium/cardiolite scan
Tilt table exam
Transesophogeal echocardiogram (TEE)

Treatment
Medications
Surgery and other procedures

Living With Heart Disease
Resuming activities
Cardiac rehabilitation

Other resources
Get your Blood Pressure under control (PDF)
Blood pressure guidelines (2007) (PDF)
Health dictionary
Heart and Soul: Your Guide to Living with Congenital Heart Disease (PDF)
Heart&Stroke Risk AssessmentTM
Living with Cholesterol (PDF)
Managing Congestive Heart Failure (PDF)
Recovery Road (PDF)
Taking control: Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke (PDF)

 

Read about Dr. Irving's story of Reversing Heart Disease One Run at a Time

 

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