Published results showed a prehabilitation intervention program was associated with improved preoperative and postoperative outcomes for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.
Anuj Punnoose, MSc, and colleagues performed a systematic review of 48 randomized controlled trials to compare outcomes of a prehabilitation program and a standard preoperative protocol for 3,570 patients (mean age of 64.1 years) who underwent total knee replacement, total hip replacement or lumbar surgery from Jan. 1, 2000, to June 30, 2022.
According to the study, the prehabilitation protocol consisted of muscle