A prehabilitation program combining exercise, nutrition counseling, and psychological support reduced nutritionally at-risk patients from 30% to 19% in just a few weeks before gynecological surgery, showing that short-term pre-operative intervention can meaningfully improve nutritional status.
I'm a big advocate of preparing for surgery to optimize outcomes, and one of the questions I get is, can you actually make a difference for people? And this is an interesting study I was just reading that was actually based on gynecological surgery, but nonetheless has the same premise. And they took women and they took them through a prehabilitation program which consists of exercise, nutrition, psychological support. And what they found is just with a couple of weeks of preparing in advance The number of patients that were considered nutritionally at risk dropped from 30% down to 19%. So even just a little bit can go a long way to improving somebody's nutrition and therefore improving their outcomes.
