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Physical Activity After Heart Surgery
This section provides general guidelines for gradually increasing your activity after heart surgery. It is intended for patients and their families.
- Three rules about being active after surgery
- More tips about being active
- Types of activities you can do after heart surgery
- About walking
- How to check your heart rate (pulse)
- Some simple stretching exercises
Some of the information listed above is from the Homeward Bound booklet. This booklet is given to all cardiac surgery patients after surgery. The remaining documents were created by physiotherapists at Toronto General Hospital.
To find a cardiac rehabilitation facility near you, select from:
a) Detailed information on all registered cardiac rehabilitation programs in Ontario (provided by the Cardiac Rehab Network of Ontario Web site)
b) A list of Cardiac Rehab Centres in Ontario (collected by UHN cardiac volunteers)
c) A list of Cardiac Rehab Centres in Canada
Other UHN Resources
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