Dr. Robert Whitfield answers the three questions surgery patients ask most: Will I need drains? How much will it hurt? When will I feel normal? He presents three devices that can help: a compression suit that may eliminate drains, red-light therapy to reduce swelling and pain medication, and pressurized oxygen to clear anesthesia fog faster.
Millions of dollars of equipment, and none of it does surgery. Everybody asks me the same 3 things before surgery. Will I have drains? How bad is the pain? And how long until I feel normal again? Drains first. This suit right here moves fluid the way your lymphatic system already does. It makes it just more efficient. Do that every day, and you don't necessarily need to have a tube coming out of you. So what's really happening after surgery is we're really in a hyperactive or elevated sympathetic state. This helps calm that down. And 10 minutes in front of this This red light, sitting down, it brings the swelling down so you need less pain medicine. And the one everybody underestimates, anesthesia fog. You sit in this breathing pressurized oxygen. It clears faster so you're thinking straight sooner. And none of it is only for surgery patients. You can actually use this all year round, even if you've never had surgery before.
