The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) 

2017 Heart Failure Awareness Week

AAHFN is beginning a year - long campaign during Heart Failure Awareness Week to provide tools for patients with heart failure and their caregivers.  The Patient Education Committee developed tips on how to stay active through exercise.  

Get Moving with Heart Failure:Lace Up and Go!    

Exercising Tips

·         Listen to your body. Hold off on exercise when you're sick or feeling very fatigued. Cut back if you cannot finish an exercise session, feel faint after exercise or fatigued during the day, or suffer having aches and pains in the joints during and after exercising.

·         If you stop exercising for a while, drop back to a lower level of exercise for a week. Example, do a slower paced walk with less distance and time or lift lighter weights or do fewer reps or sets.

·         Stretch before you walk to prevent injury. See the tip sheet on stretching.

Generous Sponsors of AAHFN's Heart Failure Awareness Week include:

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