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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 much walking can I do?
  • How to increase your walking as you feel better? 
  • Keeping track of your walking once you are home
  • Can I climb stairs?
• 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) A list of Cardiac Rehab Centres in Ontario

b) A list of Cardiac Rehab Centres in Canada

Other UHN Resources

• UHN Health Information on Cardiovascular Surgery
• Peter Munk Cardiac Centre

The documents listed are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) format and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click the icon to get a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader program if you don't already have it.

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