Exercise Physiology

The Exercise Physiology service at our hospital provides clinical and physical assessment including comprehensive exercise testing and supervised exercise for patients with cardiovascular disease and risk factors.

Our exercise physiologists provide the following:

clinical assessment including clinical review, physical assessment and risk stratification
exercise testing
exercise prescription
cardiovascular rehabilitation (Healthy WA)
patient and carer education
advice and consultancy to medical and other staff on exercise prescription.

We provide exercise physiology services for the following groups of patients:

inpatients who are likely to have improved outcomes or fast-tracked pathways as a direct result of exercise physiology services
outpatients who require exercise physiology services that are not available in the community or non-tertiary site in their local catchment area.

Exercise Physiology is part of our Allied Health Service.

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Location

Our Allied Health outpatient clinics are located at the eastern end of the main hospital building. You can access them off the main concourse on the ground floor.

Inpatient services are located throughout the hospital campus.

The main entrance to the hospital is accessed off Robin Warren Drive.

View our hospital map to find your way.

Opening hours

Outpatients

Regular hours: 8am – 5pm, Monday to Friday

Inpatients

Regular hours: 8am – 4.30pm, Monday to Friday

Specialties requiring a 7 day service are resourced to provide this.

Extended working hours exist in the following areas

Emergency Department
8am – 9pm

Intensive Care Unit
24 hours for physiotherapy
On-call service for Social Work

Acute Medical Unit
7am – 7pm