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Getting regular exercise is an important part of your recovery. This handout will help you increase your activities safely after your robot-assisted heart surgery.

This handout gives activity goals and precautions to follow during and after your oncology treatment.

This handout is a guide to Exercise Tolerance Tests, Treadmill Stress Echocardiograms, and Bicycle Stress Echocardiograms. This explains what exercise stress tests are and what to expect if you are having one.

This handout explains a test that will help your doctor assess your heart health. For this test, you will receive an injection, have pictures taken of your chest, and exercise on a treadmill. Radionuclide imaging is a way for us to see inside your heart. It is also called a radioisotope scan.

This handout gives instructions for neck, jaw, and face exercises for patients who have had radiation therapy to this area. The exercises are design to help keep normal movement in the neck and jaw, prevent contractures (shortening of the soft tissue or muscle), and keep fluid from gathering in the treatment area. This document is also a chapter in the manual "Your Guide to Head and Neck Radiation Therapy."

This handout gives exercises you can do at home to help improve movement and ease pain in your back and hips.

This handout explains why and how to express milk before having your baby. Talk with your provider before you start to hand-express your breast milk, to make sure it is a good option for you.

This handout explains how staff help keep patients safe during their hospital stay. It includes tips for walking safely.

This handout explains the treatment called Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT), and how it is done at the UW Medicine Sports Medicine Center at Husky Stadium.