‘Prehabilitation’: Training Your Body for Surgery

‘Prehabilitation’: Training Your Body for Surgery
Surgery is inherently traumatic and just like any major physical ordeal, it is something you want to face in optimal health. Kzenon/Shutterstock
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If you’ve had a surgery postponed due to the pandemic, or have one on the horizon, there may be some work you can do right now to prepare and to help improve your postoperative outcome.

Prehabilitation, a strategy that uses exercise to improve patients’ functional capacity before surgery and improve outcomes, is increasingly recommended for those facing scheduled surgeries. This approach is improving experiences for patients across a wide range of situations.
Emily C. Dunford 
Emily C. Dunford 
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