Cardiac Rehab Sydney
Our cardiac rehab in Sydney supports people recovering from heart surgery, a heart attack, or living with ongoing cardiac conditions. This service helps you safely rebuild cardiovascular fitness, regain confidence, and return to daily activities through structured, medically informed exercise and education. Our programs provide a safe transition from hospital-based care to long-term self-management. Each session focuses on improving endurance, strength, circulation, and confidence under professional supervision.
Book an Exercise Physiologist for Cardiac Rehab
Our cardiac rehab services are led by Angel Nang (Accredited Exercise Physiologist), supported by Kam Bhabra and Karen Westcott (Principal Physiotherapists), along with Niamh Davies and Gurasees Bajwa (Physiotherapists).
With expertise in cardiometabolic health, chronic disease management, and progressive exercise rehabilitation, Angel delivers safe and effective cardiac recovery programs tailored to your medical background and personal goals.
Our outpatient programs are ideal if you’re:
- Recovering from cardiac surgery, heart attack, or stent placement
- Living with chronic heart conditions like heart failure or cardiomyopathy
- Looking to maintain long-term heart health through supervised exercise
Ready to rebuild strength and stamina with professional support
You’ll find us at:
- Mon – Tue: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Wed: 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM
- Thu: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Fri: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Sat: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
- Sun: Closed
How We Treat Cardiac Conditions
Our cardiac rehab sessions are structured, supervised, and fully tailored to your individual capacity. Each session is guided by up-to-date evidence and designed to promote gradual, sustainable improvement.
Your cardiac rehab sessions include:
- Initial Assessment: Review of medical history, medications, and exercise tolerance.
- Supervised Exercise Training: Low- to moderate-intensity aerobic and resistance training, adapted to your condition and monitored for safety.
- Breathing Retraining: Exercises to improve oxygen efficiency and reduce breathlessness.
- Education and Lifestyle Guidance: Topics include heart-healthy living, stress management, safe pacing, and nutrition.
- Progress Reviews: Regular monitoring of vitals and fitness to adjust your program as you improve.
Initial Consultation: $160
Review Assessment and Consultation: $155
Standard Consultation: $125
Please note: A cancellation fee of $83 applies for cancellations within 24 hours of the scheduled appointment. Private health rebate applicable.
How Long to See Improvements?
Every recovery is different, but most people notice gradual and measurable gains over several weeks of consistent participation.
- Within 2–3 Weeks: You’ll begin to feel more confident moving again, with steadier breathing and less fatigue during light activities such as walking or climbing stairs.
- 4–6 Weeks: Endurance and circulation improve, helping you complete daily tasks with less shortness of breath. Many people report sleeping better and feeling more energetic.
- 8–12 Weeks: Exercise capacity and muscle strength increase noticeably. You may return to hobbies, travel, or part-time work with greater independence and stamina.
- Beyond 12 Weeks: With continued exercise and lifestyle changes, you’ll see lasting improvements in heart health, blood pressure control, and overall wellbeing. Ongoing maintenance helps sustain results and reduce the likelihood of future cardiac events.
Who Can Benefit From Cardiac Rehab?
Cardiac rehab is recommended for people recovering from a heart event or surgery, or managing an ongoing heart condition. It provides a safe, structured way to rebuild cardiovascular strength, improve confidence, and prevent future complications.
- Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction): Helps restore circulation, rebuild endurance, and lower the risk of future heart events through guided exercise and education.
- Coronary Artery Bypass or Valve Surgery: Supports recovery after open-heart or valve repair surgery, improving chest mobility, posture, and confidence with movement.
- Stent or Angioplasty Procedures: Optimises long-term heart function, builds exercise tolerance, and reinforces healthy lifestyle habits to protect your heart.
- Heart Failure or Cardiomyopathy: Provides gentle, supervised exercise to manage breathlessness and fatigue, improving energy, mobility, and quality of life.
- Long-Term Cardiac Disease Management: Helps people with high blood pressure, arrhythmias, or chronic heart disease maintain fitness, manage symptoms, and reduce complications.
- Post-Hospital Deconditioning: Rebuilds strength, endurance, and independence after periods of illness, surgery, or reduced activity.
Ongoing Rehab & Exercise Classes
In addition to one-on-one physiotherapy, Lilyfield Physio offers group rehab and exercise classes designed to support your long-term health. These classes focus on building strength, improving mobility, correcting movement patterns, and maintaining joint resilience.
With a wide range of class types and convenient times, there’s plenty of opportunity to continue progressing safely under expert guidance.
Meet Our Team
Lilyfield Physiotherapy is proud to offer some of Australia’s most experienced and highly qualified exercise physiologists and physiotherapists, committed to helping you move better, faster.
FAQs
Cardiac rehab combines supervised exercise and education to help people recover from heart conditions, improving strength, circulation, and confidence.
It helps you recover safely and effectively after a heart condition or procedure, improves heart function, reduces symptoms like fatigue and breathlessness, and supports long-term heart health through education and guided movement.
- Initial Consultation: $160
- Review Assessment and Consultation: $155
- Standard Consultation: $125
However, if you have a Chronic Disease Management Plan (CDMP) from your GP, you may receive a Medicare rebate for your sessions. Many private health funds also offer rebates under physiotherapy or exercise physiology, depending on your cover.
Note: A cancellation fee of $83 applies for cancellations within 24 hours of your appointment.
Yes, in some cases. Medicare now offers chronic disease management referred to as Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) plans, for people with chronic conditions. This allows for a Medicare rebate, for up to 5 physio or exercise physiology treatments a year. You must be referred by your GP and you need to bring your Medicare card with you. If you have any queries regarding this service, please don’t hesitate to speak with our staff or discuss your eligibility with your GP.
While some exercises can be continued at home, supervised sessions are recommended at the start of your recovery. This ensures exercises are performed safely and adjusted to your fitness level. Once you’ve built confidence and stability, your therapist will design a home program to maintain your progress.
Most sessions run for 45 to 60 minutes, including warm-up, exercise, cool-down, and education. Each session is tailored to your stage of recovery and closely monitored to ensure safety.
Sessions begin with a vitals check (heart rate, blood pressure, symptoms), followed by gentle aerobic and resistance exercises, breathing training, and a cool-down. Education is included to help you manage stress, monitor warning signs, and maintain heart health.
Most people attend one to two sessions per week for 6 to 12 weeks, depending on their recovery and medical advice. After completing your program, we’ll provide guidance for independent or ongoing maintenance exercise to help sustain long-term heart health.
Yes. If you have a Chronic Disease Management Plan (CDMP) from your GP, you may receive a Medicare rebate for your sessions. Many private health funds also offer rebates under physiotherapy or exercise physiology, depending on your cover.
We accept cash, EFTPOS, VISA and MasterCard. If you bring your private health insurance card with you, we can process an on-the-spot claim via our HICAPS terminal and you will then only need to pay the gap fee.
We accept referrals for Compulsory Third-Party Insurance claims. Once you have seen your GP and received a claim number, we are able to send any invoices directly to the insurer. If you need to start treatment before you have a claim number, we shall ask you to cover the cost of the treatment and claim from the insurer later.
You can cancel and re-schedule by calling our rooms on 9810 2203. For after hours, we have an answering machine service for you to leave a message. Our receptionist will contact you shortly after it is received to confirm cancellation or to help you re-schedule.
We request that if you are unable to make a consultation or class that you let us know at least 24 hours prior to your appointment so that someone else can use your treatment time.
We have a cancellation fee policy for late cancellations or missed appointments.
This practice takes great care to ensure that our information records are accurate and are treated with full regard to the privacy of our patients. We only collect information from our patients that is necessary for good health care and aim to ensure that any information we hold is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
The health information we hold helps us provide our patients with the best possible health care, and is disclosed only to others involved in your treatment, such as your doctor. If we need to disclose information about you to people other than those associated with your treatment, we will seek your permission first.
Occasionally we may be involved in research on health issues. If any data from this practice is used in research, it will not include information which identifies our patients.
This practice is bound by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, and operates in accordance with the Code of Conduct of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. If you would like to discuss any aspects of our privacy policy, or review your health records, please advise your treating Physiotherapist or Exercise Physiologist.