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What exercise can I do in rehab (post-operation) to enhance my recovery?
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What exercise can I do in rehab (post-operation) to enhance my recovery?

Exercises depend on surgery taken and the outcome. They can range from breathing exercises to mobility and gradually increasing the variety of exercises.

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The exercises you're able to do in post-surgery, first of all are dependent on the surgery that you've had and the outcome of the surgery and obviously you need to take advice from your physician as to when it's safe to start exercising again. Initially, you'd be looking at breathing exercises, low-level walking, mobility exercises for the joints. You would like to do those maybe in a seated position or lying down if you're able to. And then week on week, as long as there's no pain, you would want to look at increasing the intensity of the exercises and start to bring in more variety, strength and resistance training, exercise for longer periods of time and more frequently. you

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