Exercise is medicine – how heart surgery patients are bouncing back post-op - Swinburne University of Technology

A new study has shown resistance training is safe for heart surgery patients just two weeks post-op. Swinburne PhD student Jacqueline Pengelly says there is an increasing body of evidence promoting more active recovery programs.

For post-op heart surgery patients, the road to recovery can often be slow and frustrating, but new research conducted by Swinburne could have patients looking at their rehab charts with a new level … [+3187 chars]

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