EVENTS
Stay tuned for the next ~ VANSCAD Conference! Visit: https://vanscad.ca/
The 6th Annual VanSCAD conference will be held in person and virtually on September 6-8,2024. An international team of SCAD experts will provide a contemporary update on SCAD during this full-three day conference. Target audience include YOU!
This year they are adding a major theme on Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease (NOCAD) including MINOCA (Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries) and INOCA (Ischemia with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries) agenda. A team of SCAD and NOCAD experts internationally will be on faculty in person to provide a contemporary update on SCAD & MINOCA/INOCA.
As well as cardiologists (general, critical care, interventionists), internists, general practitioners, nurses, residents/fellows, students, and patients. The agenda and faculty are listed in the following webpages. The conference will be recorded and post-conference online streaming of the meeting will be available for registrants only.
SCAD BC Virtual support group
SCAD BC meets virtually once month - the second Tuesday of each month from 7-8pm PST. This gives you an opportunity to meet other SCAD people and share experiences/ask questions/express concerns. This informal gathering is not just for the newly diagnosed and is open to any SCAD person who finds the sharing and support helpful - you don’t need to wait until you are referred to the Healthy Heart Program. It’s open to all! People who have attended have found it really helpful to meet others going through something similar, ask questions, and hear others’ stories. Not part of the Healthy Heart Program? No problem. Please join us.
Click on the “Contact” link above for the Zoom link or watch SCAD BC FB site.😊
WHEN: Every 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7:00-8:00 pm PST
WHERE: From the comfort of your own home on ZOOM
Connecting with each other is really important.
Please join us.
Zoom info will be posted on our Facebook site or you can contact us directly. Click on the “Contact” link above for the Zoom link.
YOGA:
Yoga is such a wonderful way to take care of yourself in both body, mind and spirit. The yoga instructor from THE SCAD REHAB AT VGH is offering yoga classes via Zoom that would be perfect for you.
Anyone who had the opportunity to attend Rey’s yoga classes through the VGH Cardiac Rehab program will tell you how amazing they are! Rey is offering virtual yoga privately.
Contact Rey_Carroll@yahoo.com for more information.
With respect to SCAD and FMD…choose gentle yoga with flowing movement. You should be able to breath comfortably throughout, no straining or isometric exercises that would require ‘bearing down and holding breath’. Also do not recommend extended positions where head is held downward (ie downward dog) if you have been diagnosed with cerebral or cervical FMD, aneurysms or prior dissection.
Other events:
Keep checking back! We post events as we hear about them.
You can also check out our SCAD BC Facebook for news and events.